South Asia in Global Power Rivalry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Bangladesh and the Changing Global Rivalry: An Inside-out Appraisal

   • Imtiaz Hussain

   Pages 1-30

3. Bangladesh-India Relations: Transitions at the Core

   • M. Ashab Uddin

   Pages 31-47

4. “Shining” or “Suffering” South Asia? China’s South Asian Footprints

   • Manzurul Mannan

   Pages 49-80

5. China, India, and Myanmar: Playing Rohingya Roulette?

   • Hossain Ahmed Taufiq

   Pages 81-99

6. Encircling India: China Tightens South Asian Noose

   • Imtiaz Hussain

   Pages 101-123

7. Gender Benders in Off-Shore Production: Bangladesh-China Comparisons

   • Shamsun Nahar Ahmed

   Pages 125-151

8. Trading with China, India, and the United States: Bangladesh’s Track Record

   • A. N. M. Shibly Noman Khan

   Pages 153-178

9. Chinese and Indian Latin America Entry: Resurrecting Old-Model Relationships

   • Francisco Javier Haro-Navejas, Cristina Tapia-Muro

   Pages 179-212

10. Asia, Latin America, and Globalization: Close Encounters of a Third Kind?

    • Imtiaz Hussain

    Pages 213-240

11. South Asia in Strategic Competition: Tracing Chinese, Indian, and U.S. Footprints

    • Syed Mahmud Ali

    Pages 241-292

12. Conclusions: Global Leadership of a Glocal Kind

    • Imtiaz Hussain

    Pages 293-298

13. Back Matter

    Pages 299-320

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This edited volume examines global power-rivalry in and around South Asia through Bangladeshi lenses using imperfect and overlapping interest concentric-circles as a template. Dynamics from three transitions —the United States exiting the Cold War, China emerging as a global-level power, and India’s eastern interests squaring off with China’s Belt Road Initiative, BRI—help place China, India, and the United States (in alphabetical order) in Bangladesh’s “inner-most” circle, China, India, and the United States in a “mid-stream” circle, and the United States and Latin America, among other countries, in the “outer-most” circle, depending on the issue.


In an atmosphere of short-term gains over-riding long-term considerations, the desperate, widespread search for infrastructural funding inside South Asia enhances China’s value, raises local heat, releases new challenges, with costly default consequences looming, issue-specific analysis overtaking formal bilateral relations and a stubborn uncertainty riddling the Bangladeshi air as its policy preferences stubbornly show more certainty.

• “Shining” versus “suffering” South Asian contest
• Gordon Knot in the Himalayas
• A third Asian-Latin embrace
• Heartland thesis goes south
• Belt Road Initiative meets India’s Look/Act East policy
• Infrastructure-building with Rohingya genocide consequences
• The realism-liberalism tussle in Asia
• U.S. Pivot Asia
• 21st Century “third” Asia-Latin embrace
• Off-shore ready-made-garment (RMG) production
• String of Indian Pearls
• Post-non-alignment India
• Encircling India
• BANGLADESH & THE CHANGING GLOBAL RIVALRY
• BANGLADESH-INDIA RELATIONS
• CHINA’S SOUTH ASIAN FOOTPRINTS
• ROHINGYA
• CHINA’S & INDIA’S LATIN ENTRY
• ASIA, LATIN AMERICA, & GLOBALIZATION
• SOUTH ASIA IN STRATEGIC COMPETITION

• Independent University of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Imtiaz Hussain

Imtiaz Hussain is the Head of Global Studies & Governance, at Independent University, Bangladesh. Previously Professor of International Relations (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, 1995-2013) and International Political Economy (Philadelphia University, 1990-94), his publications include: Transatlantic Transitions: Back to a Global Future? (2018), North American Regionalism and Global Spread (2015); Evaluating NAFTA: Theory and Practice (2013); Border Governance and the ‘Unruly’ South (2013), North America’s Soft Security Threat (2013), Afghanistan-Iraq and Post-conflict Governance (2010), The Impact of NAFTA on North America (2010), North American Homeland Security (2008); Running on Empty Across Central America (2006), and Globalization, Indigenous Groups, and Mexico’s Plan Puebla Plan (2006); and articles in Handbook of Global Security and Intelligence (2008), South Asian Survey(2008), Politics & Policy (2008), Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (2006),  Norteamérica (2006), among others. A recipient of over 12 international fellowships and 8 teaching awards, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.

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