The uphill climb to woo neighbours
The diplomatic soft-soaping from Sri Lanka President Dissanayake’s India visit seems not to have worked.
Bangladesh’s ties with big neighbours: Balance will still be the mainstay
In an interview with The Daily Star's diplomatic correspondent Porimol Palma, Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain shared his views on Dhaka-Delhi ties, Sheikh Hasina's stay…
New form of indiscriminate killing threatens Middle East: The Japan News
There are concerns that the situation in the Middle East will further deteriorate as a result of the latest attacks and that the cycle of retaliation will accelerate.
The limits of deterrence
What China is trying to figure out, and ultimately, prove, is that even if it were to commit aggression (beyond the aggressiveness it’s been showing), these alliances would…
Afghan policy flux: Dawn
Ever since the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Pakistan has struggled to come up with a coherent Afghan policy that sufficiently addresses its concerns about terrorism, and at the same…
A broken rules based order: Why Malaysia is staging a come back?
Although PM Anwar could have rested on his laurels to lead Malaysia as the Chairman of Asean and the East Asian Summit in 2025, he chose to pitch Malaysia's aspiration to join…
Recalibrating ties with Maldives: The Statesman
The resignation of two Maldivian ministers who had disparaged Prime Minister Narendra Modi marks an important moment in the fragile Maldives-India relationship.
Maritime security in the Indian Ocean
It is important to build a regional security architecture on core issues.
BSF must stop killing Bangladeshis: The Daily Star
What's at stake here is not just the inalienable right to life of the people illegally crossing borders, many among them poor, unarmed villagers; these border incidents also…
India not talking to Pakistan till peace returns to occupied Kashmir is a strange argument
The argument is particularly strange coming from a country that purports to be working for peace in a distant conflict between Russia and Ukraine, says the writer.