BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

REGIONAL SECURITY IN SOUTH ASIA: A BANGLADESH PERSPECIlVE

Author: Mohammad Humayun Kabir

DOI Link: https://www.doi.org/BIISSj2002v23n2a1

ABSTRACT

The paper attempts to reflect OD the security environment and issues in South Asia to lay emphasis on enhanced confidence building and regional cooperation in the region. The framework encompasses both realist approach to include conventional threats and moderate approach to include certain threats to communities and individuals that are not necessarily military in nature. It attempts to see the security problems in the region at five levels that are structural. policy-induced. attitudinal. historical and issue-specific. These problems reflect on security issues in South Asia that are seen at three levels: domestic. bilateral and regional. The paper concludes with sets of measures that could be undertaken for regional security management again at three levels of domestic. bilateral and regional initiative. Domestic initiative basically emphasises on the improvement of overall governance process for ensuring social cohesion. economic progress and stable political order. while stressing on negotiation for the resolution of bilateral problems and on political dialogue and confidence building measures between and among the regional countries under a security-oriented regional co-operative framework for the management of regional security issues.