This book is an attempt to document and analyse the context and content of Bangladesh’s initiation, participation and payoff in relation to South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC). This study is premised on the idea that regionalism is general and its institutional expression in particular represent attempts to advance and secure foreign policy goals. This book highlights the ways and means of initiative of Bangladesh to approach her national security concerns through the creative use of the regional platform. The scope of this study includes considerations of all the relevant aspects of foreign policy of Bangladesh and her national security so far as they impinge on her relationship with India and other countries of South Asian region.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Prabir Kumar De
Prabir De is a research associate at the Research and Information System for the Non-aligned and Other Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi. He completed M.Sc. in Economics from Calcutta University. With an overseas scholarship, De earned M.Sc. in Agriculture Economics from Reading University, England. He has served in several government and non-government positions before he joined RIS in 2003. In 2002, De received the Eric Lowey International Award of International Navigation Association (PIANC), Brussels. He was a visiting research scholar of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta, and Peace Studies Group, Department of History, Calcutta University. De has also contributed several research papers on regional economics in refereed journals. His research areas include development economics in general, and infrastructure, regional economics, trade, maritime economics, and regional trading arrangements in particular.
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