Zaglul Haider

University of Rajshahi | RU · Department of Political Science

I argue in this paper that legal, but ineffective citizenship does not matter much, only effective citizenship matters. Effective citizenship can award an individual the “right to have rights.” Ineffective citizens do not have the “right to have rights” or they do not have access to many important rights associated with citizenship rights. They suf...

This paper argues that Islam is an all-embracing ideology, which deals with the entire worldly affairs as well as the hereafter. Islam does not confront democracy or development. Islamic polity, called by Westerners a theocracy, (where religion and politics are inseparable), is unlike Western theocracy, which separates religion from politics. The Q...

The Urdu-speaking Biharis of Bangladeshhavebeen facing obstructions in enjoying full citizenship rights sinceBangladesh gained independence from Pakistan in 1971. This minority,living on the fringes of Bangladeshi society, still mostly in camps,experiences discrimination particularly when it comes to obtaining passports and other travel and identit...

This paper focuses on the constraints of the South-South Cooperation (SSC) in South Asia. This paper seeks to argue that the power politics of India is primarily responsible for the slow economic cooperation in the region. Within the existing Charter of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), where bilateral, political and con...

This paper is an outcome of an empirical research conducted in Bangladesh. I argue in this paper that the Biharis in Bangladesh can constitute an effective human capital with their knowledge, ability, and experience. However, this prospective human capital is not counted in the national development of Bangladesh. The findings of the research demons...

Bangladesh Bangladesh The nature of Islam in Bangladesh exerts a profound influence on the country's society and politics. Islamist activity in Ban-gladesh, viewed generally, takes three broad forms: the traditional revivalism of grassroots movements such as the Ahl-i-Hadith and Tablighi Jama'at; the incremental political Islam of Islamic political...

This is the abstract of my LLM thesis published in the Compendium : Recent Graduate Student Dissertation &Thesis Abstracts.

This article analyzed the confluence of factors responsible for the Fall of the BNP and the Rise of the AL in the Ninth General Election of Bangladesh.

The goal of the paper is to analyze the Canadian policy towards Bangladesh. In this paper I argue that Canadian approach towards Bangladesh was different in different phases of history. In the liberation war of Bangladesh Canada played a role that went against the interest of Bangladesh and suited with the triple alliance of the US-Pakistan and Chi...

It deals with Indo-Bangladesh water dispute and suggest the best strategy f or Bangladesh

The Liberation War of Bangladesh was seen by the Indian policy makers as a prime time to dismember Pakistan. By the creation of Bangladesh, they pondered: (a) the political enemy on both its borders would be replaced by a far weaker enemy on one side and a friend on the other; (b) secularism would be regarded as a dominant ideology for the developi...

The central argument of this paper is that Canada has played an instrumental role in the development process of Bangladesh since independence in 1971. Even though Canadian aid is not as political as that of other donors, it originated from Canadian national interest, in order to gain influence over Bangladesh and access to its market for Canadian p...

This book is the comparative analysis of Bangladesh foreign policy between the Mujib and Zia regimes

Canada has been a strong supporter of Bangladesh since the latter's Independence in 1971. Though bilateral trade relations have yet to blossom, Bangladesh was the top Asian recipient of Canadian aid in 1999-2000. Nevertheless, Bangladesh, with little diplomatic weight, generally loses bargaining power in bilateralism, as it has with Canada, whose a...

It focuses on the repatriation of the stranded Biharis in Bangladesh.

It has focused on the changed role of the US in South Asia at the beginning of the 21st Century

It examines the causes and effects of the US intervention in the Gulf War

This article deals with the role of military in the Politics of Bang;ladesh during the Mujib,Zia and the Ershad Regimes (1972-1990).

It explores the crises of parliamentary democracy in Banhladesh

It has focused on how sub-regional grouping is posing threat to the security of Bangladesh

It provides the aftermath of the sixth general election in Bangladesh.

It deals with political, Economic and Diplomatic Relations of Bangladesh with China

It unveils the causes of disintegration and it's effect in South Asian Countries especially, India, Pakistan, Srilanka and Bangladesh.

It analyzed the nature, causes out.uses and effects of underdevelopment, dependence and instability in small states and suggested a way out.