CHANGING GLOBAL DYNAMICS BANGLADESH FOREIGN POLICY

Prepared in the wake of accelerating system-level change, this edited book explores how Bangladesh can future-proof its foreign policy as great-power competition intensifies, supply chains rewire, and the global rulebook frays. The contributors analyze shifts across theatres—the Indo-Pacific, the Bay of Bengal, the Middle East, and Africa—and domains—trade rules, standards competition, technology controls, climate diplomacy and migration governance. They argue for strategic autonomy anchored in economic resilience: diversified export markets, energy security, logistics corridors, and quality infrastructure. The volume rethinks partnerships with India, China, Japan, ASEAN and the Gulf, emphasizing issue-based coalitions and risk-managed engagement with all sides. It also examines the domestic underpinnings of external credibility—policy predictability, regulatory quality, investment climate—and the role of public diplomacy and diasporas. Policy chapters translate analysis into actionable steps: hedging without hostility, participating in plurilateral standards clubs, using trade remedies judiciously, and investing in maritime domain awareness. By marrying geopolitical lucidity with development pragmatism, the book provides a playbook for navigating turbulence without surrendering agency.