Faridul Alam

AI-driven warfare is accelerating military judgment while eroding ethical hesitation, reflective oversight, and human moral authority.

A quip about language reveals deeper histories of empire, translation, and the myth of linguistic inevitability

Global power transitions from the age of oil to electrons, defining a dual world order of entanglement.

US containment strategies risk strategic inversion, unintentionally accelerating global production networks that reinforce China’s deep industrial centrality.

The Iran conflict underscores the inadequacy of conventional strategic frameworks, revealing the indeterminacy, oscillation, and systemic interdependence that define contemporary warfare.

To speak of Generation Z today is to confront a cohort caught in what might be called a historical compression chamber. Born in the afterlife of grand narratives yet compelled to endure their violent returns, Gen Z inhabits a present that is neither stable nor self-contained.

Today, however, the global economy is increasingly multipolar. Manufacturing capacity, technological development, and financial influence are distributed across several major centres rather than concentrated within a single hegemonic order.

The translator is not a neutral bridge but a creative curator.

The 21st century’s centre of gravity is quietly shifting from Washington to Beijing.

In the annals of modern Middle Eastern history, few documents have cast a longer or darker shadow than the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916.

Unlike lions or metaphysical plagues, the mosquito kills without spectacle—its victims slip away in silence, far from poetry and pageantry.

Mob violence has become one of the most pressing challenges confronting Bangladesh.

Counterfactual thinking is not idle speculation but political vigilance.

Hubris that had been a weapon in resistance became a liability in governance.

We need a political ethic that resists collapsing into either technocratic detachment or populist fury.

To grieve without demanding reform is to accept the inevitability of recurrence.

The July uprising was a networked event, a convergence of actors both familiar and unexpected.

In the first half of 2025, Bangladesh’s economic headlines have swung between cautious optimism and deepening alarm.

The Israel-Iran conflict is about who defines global legitimacy.

In a world increasingly shaped by algorithms, decision-making is stripped of human nuance.