BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

GREAT GAME REVOLVING AROUND RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR AND THE TRENDS OF GLOBAL POWER POLITICS: NAVIGATING CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIC OUTLOOK FOR BANGLADESH

Author: Mohammad Aynul Islam Rubel Molla Md Mazhar Uddin Bhuiyan

DOI Link: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2023v44n4a1

ABSTRACT

The geopolitical landscape of the world has always been shaped and driven by a range of historical incidents, wars and conflicts over time. The Russo- Ukrainian war has created significant impacts on regional and global strategic order leading towards a complex dynamics of world politics. This paper argues that the Ukraine war has changed the nature of power politics and the world’s response to war would have decisive role in shaping the political and economic landscape of the globe in the ensuing decades. The paper highlights several strategic impacts of the war, i.e., polarisation in Europe, call for dedollarisation, weakening of sanction regime, China’s growing role as a global negotiator, politics of energy transition and growing security concerns such as arms race, expansion of nuclear weapons, and expansion of NATO etc. The war has also brought multiple economic and strategic challenges for Bangladesh. This paper suggests that Bangladesh should maintain its non-alignment posture and continue to uphold multilateralism as a response strategy to navigate present and future challenges, develop its own priorities and project national interests focusing on economic advancement.