Inherited Laws, Unfinished Decolonisation: The Case for Legal Reform in Bangladesh
By IILD Research Desk | February 2026 Bangladesh’s legal system is, in significant ways, a colonial inheritance. The Penal Code dates from 1860, drafted under a British administration with objectives that had little to do with the welfare of the people it governed. The Evidence Act, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and large portions of […]
Beyond Crackdowns: Rethinking Counter-Terrorism in Post-Conflict Bangladesh
By IILD Research Desk | March 2026 The standard counter-terrorism playbook — surveillance, detention, prosecution — has its place. But in a society emerging from prolonged political violence and institutional decay, applying that playbook without a corresponding investment in grievance-reduction is likely to generate as much instability as it resolves. Bangladesh is at precisely that […]
Beyond Crackdowns: Rethinking Counter-Terrorism in Post-Conflict Bangladesh
By IILD Research Desk | April 2026 Every new government in Bangladesh arrives bearing promises of anti-corruption reform. The pattern is familiar enough: strong rhetoric in the early months, some high-profile prosecutions of the previous administration’s figures, and then a gradual accommodation with the structural incentives that made corruption endemic in the first place. The […]
The Shifting Architecture of South Asian Diplomacy: Bangladesh at the Crossroads
By IILD Research Desk | MAY 2026. For much of the past two decades, Bangladesh operated within a diplomatic architecture shaped by New Delhi’s strategic preferences, Beijing’s infrastructural appetite, and Washington’s democracy benchmarks. That triangular arrangement, long held in uneasy equilibrium, is showing signs of stress — and Bangladesh finds itself at the centre of […]