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ISSN 1609-7289 (Print)

Content  Page No
Bangabandhu’s 6-Point Programme
and the Independence of Bangladesh
Harun-or-Rashid
1-18
Securitization of Cross-border
Population Movements
Tasneem Siddiqui
19-32
Business-Politics Nexus and
Violations of the Water, Bodies in Dhaka City
Farid Uddin Ahmed
33-54
Bonhomie of India-Bangladesh
Relations in the Post-2008 Period
Sanjay K. Bhardwaj
55-76
Fifty Years of Bangladesh-Japan
Relations: Japan’s Contribution to
the Freedom Struggle of
Bangladesh
S. M. Ali Reza
77-102
Geopolitics and International
Negotiations: Challenges
and Options for Bangladesh
Mohammad Aynul Islam
Rubel Molla
103-132
Addressing the Housing Needs of
Low-Income Internal
Migrants in Chattogram City:
The Role of City Governance
Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan
133-162
Constraints related to the
Community Management Model
for Shared Drinking Water Systems
Governance in Coastal Bangladesh
Muhammad Badrul Hasan
163-184
Governing the Bangladesh-India
Borderland: No Melting Point for a
State Border and Social Boundary
Abu Sufian
185-214
A Critical Appraisal of the
Sustainability of Bangladesh’s
Water Governance from Nexus
Perspectives
Sajid Karim
215-240
Domestic Bases of Foreign Policy:
The Case of Bangladesh’s Policy
towards India
Bibhuti Bhusan Biswas
241-267