Focus 84 – Chinese debt-trap
Significance and repercussions
On the wake of the current Sri Lankan socio-economic and political collapse, a strong international debate is being waged on the dangers of debt-traps in connection with the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI).
In the present paper we will make a brief historical review of the use of...
Comment 238 – Five years after the Rohingya genocide: the persistent precariousness in...
For the last forty years Rohingyas have had to flee Myanmar and seek refuge in Bangladesh so as to protect their very lives (Uddin, 2021a). Even though Rohingyas first arrived in the late 1970s, the genocide of August 25, 2017 in the Rakhine State led to a massive refugee...
Research Report 8 – The Hefazat-e-Islam and the Islamist challenge in Bangladesh
Abstract
In recent years, the number of terrorist incidents and related casualties have steadily declined in Bangladesh. Yet the problem of Islamist extremism remains, as can be witnessed in the frequent outbursts of massive political violence, increase in religiously motivated illiberalism, and a general shrinking of free, liberal, and secular...
Comment 237 – The Gulf region and the Iranian threat
On 14 July, on the occasion of the first leaders’ meeting of the (I2U2) Group – India, Israel, United Arab Emirates, and the United States – a joint statement was issued reaffirming the group’s ‘support for the Abraham Accords and other peace and normalization arrangements with Israel’.
According to ‘Voice...
Conversation on ‘How to unblock food exports from Ukraine: current actions and plans’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfhtR07Rbk0
On 18 July at 11h00 (Brussels time) the Ukrainian Mission to the European Union, in partnership
with SADF, promoted a hybrid online and presential seminar on ‘How to unblock food exports
from Ukraine: current actions and plans’.
Mr Serhii Tereshko, deputy Head of the Ukrainian Mission to the European Union, gave the
welcoming...
SADF Conversation on ‘HIV/AIDS vulnerability among street children in urban Bangladesh: A reality of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BJNUIWP_dk
Mr. Saidur Rashid Rumon is an Associate professor of Sociology at Jagannath University, Dhaka. Dr.Abdullah Abusayed Khan is a Professor of Sociology, and Head of the Mass Communication and Journalism Discipline at Khulna University, Bangladesh. In a conversation moderated by Dr. Siegfried Wolf on behalf of SADF, these authors...
Comment 236 – Sri Lanka rescue: Quad coordination is necessary!
The occupation of the Presidential palace by demonstrators, followed by the escape of the President and other members of his family from the country, marks a new height on Sri Lanka’s deep economic, social, and political crisis – a crisis within one of the first countries to adhere to...
COMMENT 235 – The European Union and India’s security challenges
Jawaharlal Nehru, side by side with Josip Broz Tito, Sukarno, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Kwame Nkrumah, founded the Non-aligned movement in 1961. Non-alignment became a defining feature of Indian foreign policy – and to a certain extent identity – ever since.
The reality and perception of ‘non-alignment’ changed fundamentally within...
Visit of Mission of Ukraine to the EU at SADF
On July 7th, SADF had the privilege to welcome at its office in Brussels Serhii Tereshko, Deputy Head of Ukraine's Mission to the European Union, and Kytsun Vitalina (First Secretary, Mission of Ukraine). On that occasion, Paulo Casaca (director and founder of SADF), Siegfried O. Wolf (SADF), and Albino...
Focus 83 – Impact of Hindu Nationalism in India’s Foreign Policy Conduct
Abstract
India is constitutionally the largest democracy on earth, as well as a secular country. However, the rise of Hindu nationalism has created some discomfort among those in the land who believe in religions other than Hinduism. The impact of societal polarization in India is usually contained within Indian boundaries;...