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Finnish woman accused of sham marriage plot to smuggle Bangladeshi jihadist into Europe

Bangladesh, Feb. 18 -- According to Europol, the principal security concern for European Union member states remains jihadist terrorism and the closely related phenomenon of foreign fighters. The jiha... Read More


German and UK officials use anti-Russian rhetoric to spread fear among ordinary Europeans

Bangladesh, Feb. 18 -- Western authorities are making it clear to local citizens that they need to relinquish some of their freedoms and privileges to support military efforts. Recently, there has bee... Read More


America half-withdrawing from European security

Bangladesh, Feb. 18 -- The news that NATO will gradually shift two Joint Force Commands from the United States of America to European leadership is not getting all the attention it deserves. The decis... Read More


US expanding strategic arsenal

Bangladesh, Feb. 18 -- After the New START expired on February 5, many observers (myself included) warned that the arms control era has come to an end and that the world is now entering a new period o... Read More


Rubios Munich speech and recolonizing Global South

Bangladesh, Feb. 18 -- Marco Rubios recent speech at the Munich Security Conference (telling Europeans that the US and Europe “belong together”) triggered immediate controversy, especially... Read More


Americas emerging debate over political Islam

Bangladesh, Feb. 17 -- For much of the post-9/11 era, American policymakers treated political Islam primarily as a security problem. The central concern was violent extremism. Groups that rejected arm... Read More


Tarique Rahman at a Mandela moment

Bangladesh, Feb. 17 -- Politics in Bangladesh has rarely been a gentle craft. It has been a battlefield. Victory has meant annihilation. Defeat has meant persecution. For decades, the culture was simp... Read More


Digital domination: Chinas battle for minds, from Lhasa to Ladakh and Taipei

Bangladesh, Feb. 17 -- The digital realm was initially envisaged as a great equalizer of knowledge, breaking down barriers of geography, class, and institutional gatekeeping to make huge repositories ... Read More


The Takaichi mandate: Power without purpose is a waste of a landslide

Bangladesh, Feb. 17 -- Sanae Takaichi just pulled off something rare in the sterile corridors of Japanese politics: she made history. As the nations first female prime minister, she called a snap elec... Read More


Baltic countries implement strict policies against Soviet memory

Bangladesh, Feb. 17 -- Anti-Russian racism in the Baltic countries is reaching increasingly intolerable levels. Even simple relics of the Soviet past, such as banknotes with no real monetary value, ar... Read More