NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY STUDIES
Non-traditional Security Studies addresses the mounting non-traditional issues and challenges in the South Asian region arising from non-military sources, such as Climate Change, Irregular Migration, Terrorism, Resource Wars, Disaster Management, Drug Trafficking, Transnational Crime etc. Factors as such are the security challenges that aren’t considered mainstream and are emerging as dynamics in conflict therefore affecting the national and international security becoming a part of non-traditional security issues that has emerged as the greatest challenges of 21st century.
ARTICLES
Exploring the BIMSTEC Potential: Opportunities, Challenges and Way Forward
BIMSTEC is the ideal platform to provide greater visibility to Nepal in the Indo-Pacific region. The initiative also realises India’s new economic interests and geostrategic ambitions in regions beyond its immediate neighbourhood, by connecting the Bay of Bengal to Southeast Asia.
Growing Digital Platforms and the Need for Regulatory Frameworks
The need for regulation of the digital intermediaries cannot be debated but the selection of an appropriate method for escalation still needs to be reassessed. The co-regulation model is a more dependable system of regulation as it allows the public and private players to work as collaborators resulting in cooperation between state, civil society, and market players.
Can a Realist Worldview define the COVID-19 Era?
Insights from Realism do help explain, to a certain degree, the prevailing international order and what might follow in the coming months, but it is important to remember that no International Relations theory perfectly explains the world at all times.
Dealing with China’s Information Warfare
Information as a weapon is effectively immersing among countries and China is making best use of it. Countries should develop faculties with independent fact-checking, strong cybersecurity, firewalls and alliance mechanisms.
Covid-19 and Vulnerability of Overseas Bangladeshis
The Government of Bangladesh should focus on the skill-training in nursing, health technology, management, medicine and hospitality, as part of its migration strategy. As the overseas employees of South Asian countries are some of the biggest sufferers, a collective South Asian platform can also be utilised to mitigate the problem.
COVID-19, Scientific Temper and Governance
The SAARC should periodically meet through video conference at the level of Ministers or Secretaries. All governments in the developing world should give special attention to the vulnerable sections such as workers working far away from home.
COVID-19 and the Japanese Approach
The Japan Times states that the social distancing measures might be essential until 2022 to reduce persistent outbreak following the initial wave. Whatever situation arises during the Coronavirus phase, Japan has enough competence to manage it at national level. However, it can be said with some certainty that in the future, COVID-19 would damage the Japanese position of being advanced country, internationally.
(Re)-Thinking Climate Change after COVID-19
The focus on climate change and health must go simultaneously, as they are interconnected - a better climate yields better health, and helps ease the pressure on the health systems of a nation. In this hour of crisis, a long-term planning is much needed.