The book is built around three themes: Historical backgrounds as well as the domestic and international setting, the foreign policy making-process, the principal actors in formulating foreign policy, the country's strengths and weaknesses and impact of changes in international politics.
This book contains: 1. Revisiting the history of geopolitics 2. Geopolitics in contemporary times 3. Bangladesh and the futures of geopolitcs
This book is more than a thorough case study; it is a critical analy- sis for anyone interested in women, poverty, and economic development. Together with BRAC field staff, Chen helped organize over six thousand women into over two hundred and fifty cooperative groups. Through these groups, the women have begun to generate higher incomes and exercise more power and autonomy. The learning and ex…
Survival of natural disasters is more than a question of individual heroism. For Bangladesh, exposed to recurrent cyclones and floods, the question of how to minimize the impact of the disaster is of immediate relevance. A year ago, on 29 April 1991 strong cyclonic winds and tidal bore battered the coastline of Bangladesh and dislocated its population. This book provides a valuable analysis of …
This book deals with advent of Islam in Bangladesh, during the Muslim and British rules, Muslim society and Muslim renaissance in Bangladesh, development of traditional Islamic education in Bangladesh and contribution of Bangladesh to art and architecture. The book is the outcome of research conducted by a board of researchers of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh: Whose Ideas, Whose Interests? is a gathering together of various writings since 1974 by Geoffrey D. Wood on rural development issues in Bangladesh. Several of the chapters have been written specifically for this volume while others have been appropriately edited. A third of it has been written since 1992. The chapters derive from a combination of primary academic research, action-re…
Bangladesh: Reflections on the Water is a personal and penetrating over view of the land and its people. James J. Novak examines the economy, the importance of seasonal fluctuations in the lifestyle and psychology of the people, geography, history, music, art, poetry, ways of thinking, and political life. He also offers a novel interpretation of the Bangladesh independence movement, the only fu…