Bidhan Chakma
Biographic Data
| ID | 1055148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bidhan Chakma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bidhan |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakma |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKMA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3410-6167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ethnocratic Statecraft and Conflict
Demographic engineering
Population resettlement in contested ethnoterritories is an old practice that states have pursued for centuries. There is a nascent theory of demographic engineering to explain the phenomenon, although a robust theory on the issue is yet to be built. Theorists generally agree that states transfer and resettle populations to gain territorial control over contested ethnoterritories. But what is not clear in the current scholarship is how states acc…
Does Implementation of ’Citizen’s Charter Make Any Difference in Service Delivery? Comparing the Performance of Local Councils between Plain and Hilly Areas—A Case of Bangladesh
This paper compares the impact of citizen’s charters in delivering services by Union Parishads in Bangladesh in Bengali-majority and tribal areas. Using a qualitative research method, the case study was used to look at CC implementation in a comprehensive and in-depth way. Interview and observation methods were employed to collect data. One hundred interviewees from each union, including service providers, service users, and LG officials, were co…
The Belt and Road Initiative and the Politics of Connectivity
The BRI and India’s Neighbourhood
Chinese President Xi Jinping initially proposed to build an ‘economic belt’ and a ‘21st-century Maritime Silk Road’ in 2013 which were formalised as the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) in a docume...
Saarc and region-building
‘Region’ is a contested concept. Although scholars have extensively debated the issue, there is no consensus on the definition of region. While some scholars emphasize geographic proximity as a key factor, others put importance to cognitive and ideational factors, yet some others seek to combine the two perspectives to define region. Against such a background, this paper explains the complexities of defining South Asia as a region. It explores th…
Hindu nationalism and the evolution of contemporary Indian security
The publication of Chris Ogden’s book could not be more timely. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has become increasingly important in setting the direction of India’s foreign and security policy. T
Boundaries Undermined
Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 31(1), pp. 143–144
Eating Grass
Liberal Peace and South Asia
Following the end of the Cold War, South Asia has been in transition in a number of ways. Based on the Kantian tripod of democracy, economic interdependence and institution, this article assesses whether liberal peace has taken root in South Asia. It concludes that although an incipient liberal order may be discerned in the region, South Asia has yet to change fundamentally to become a zone of liberal peace. Particularly the Indo-Pakistani relati…
International conflict over water resources in Himalayan Asia
Academic enquiries about Himalayan Asia generally tend to focus on politico-strategic rivalries and conflicts of the regional states. The rivalry between China and India, for example, has tradition
Managing India's nuclear forces
Escalation Control, Deterrence Diplomacy and America's Role in South Asia's Nuclear Crises
This article assesses the significance of American diplomatic intervention in the de-escalation of two South Asian nuclear crises - the 1999 Kargil conflict and the 2001-2002 military stand-off. The American role in those crises is often referred to as crisis manager or secondary in the context of the region's strategic and crisis stability. A careful analysis of American diplomatic interventions, however, reveals that the role is much greater, c…
Nuclear Arms Control 1 Challenges in South Asia
The idea of arms control has hardly taken root in South Asia. The existing nuclear arms control measures between India and Pakistan are patently inadequate for addressing the pressing nuclear concerns of the region. Although there are compelling reasons for nuclear arms control, India and Pakistan are reluctant to undertake worthwhile arms control initiatives. There are three key reasons for this: India and Pakistan are currently at the formative…
The post-colonial state and minorities
This paper argues that ethnocide in post-colonial states can be located in the interplay of three processes: (1) nation-building and development visions of the bureaucratic state; (2) the struggle for autonomy by the minorities; and (3) militarised pursuit of national security agenda by the bureaucratic state. The bureaucratic, political, economic, cultural and military penetration of the state into the territories of the indigenous communities o…
South Asia
South Asia's Realist Fascination and the Alternatives
An intense debate on the meaning and nature of security and security studies' ontological and epistemological foundations is one of the defining features of post-Cold War international studies. Cha
South Asia
The NPT, the CTBT and Pakistan
Pakistan represents a case of non-compliance to the two most important treaties on non-proliferation—The Non-Proliferation Treaty and The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. This article surveys the changing contour of Pakistan's policy approach towards the NPT and the CTBT, and explains the underlying motivations and implications of the Pakistani postures. It analyses why Pakistan, despite supporting the final drafts, ultimately refused to sign the N…
Toward Pokhran II
The basic objective of this paper is to assess India's acquisition of nuclear weapons in light of the general debate why states 'go nuclear' and build nuclear arsenals. In general, analysts proffer four arguments about proliferation of nuclear weapons. They are: (1) security concerns; (2) prestige; (3) technological imperatives; and (4) domestic politics. The first posits that security concerns directly related to a state's physical security and …
Road to Chagai
Pakistan carried out six nuclear explosions on 28 and 30 May 1998 at the Chagai test site in reaction to India's conduct of five nuclear tests about two weeks earlier. Expectedly, the tests provoked strong international condemnation. On the eve of, and following the tests, Islamabad pointed out that its action was basically reactive to the Indian tests and necessary to ensure the survival of Pakistan. Indeed, since the 1960s, if not the 1950s, Is…
Bhutan's Foreign Policy
Research Article| November 01 1993 Bhutan's Foreign Policy: Cautious Self-Assertion? Syed Aziz-al Ahsan, Syed Aziz-al Ahsan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Bhumitra Chakma Bhumitra Chakma Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1993) 33 (11): 1043–1054. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644998 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementa…
Problems of National Integration in Bangladesh
Research Article| October 01 1989 Problems of National Integration in Bangladesh: The Chittagong Hill Tracts Syed Aziz-al Ahsan, Syed Aziz-al Ahsan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Bhumitra Chakma Bhumitra Chakma Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1960) 29 (10): 959–970. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644791 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & ta…
The post-colonial state and minorities
This paper argues that ethnocide in post-colonial states can be located in the interplay of three processes: (1) nation-building and development visions of the bureaucratic state; (2) the struggle for autonomy by the minorities; and (3) militarised pursuit of national security agenda by the bureaucratic state. The bureaucratic, political, economic, cultural and military penetration of the state into the territories of the indigenous communities o…
Problems of National Integration in Bangladesh
Research Article| October 01 1989 Problems of National Integration in Bangladesh: The Chittagong Hill Tracts Syed Aziz-al Ahsan, Syed Aziz-al Ahsan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Bhumitra Chakma Bhumitra Chakma Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1960) 29 (10): 959–970. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644791 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & ta…
Saarc and region-building
‘Region’ is a contested concept. Although scholars have extensively debated the issue, there is no consensus on the definition of region. While some scholars emphasize geographic proximity as a key factor, others put importance to cognitive and ideational factors, yet some others seek to combine the two perspectives to define region. Against such a background, this paper explains the complexities of defining South Asia as a region. It explores th…
Toward Pokhran II
The basic objective of this paper is to assess India's acquisition of nuclear weapons in light of the general debate why states 'go nuclear' and build nuclear arsenals. In general, analysts proffer four arguments about proliferation of nuclear weapons. They are: (1) security concerns; (2) prestige; (3) technological imperatives; and (4) domestic politics. The first posits that security concerns directly related to a state's physical security and …
Road to Chagai
Pakistan carried out six nuclear explosions on 28 and 30 May 1998 at the Chagai test site in reaction to India's conduct of five nuclear tests about two weeks earlier. Expectedly, the tests provoked strong international condemnation. On the eve of, and following the tests, Islamabad pointed out that its action was basically reactive to the Indian tests and necessary to ensure the survival of Pakistan. Indeed, since the 1960s, if not the 1950s, Is…
Escalation Control, Deterrence Diplomacy and America's Role in South Asia's Nuclear Crises
This article assesses the significance of American diplomatic intervention in the de-escalation of two South Asian nuclear crises - the 1999 Kargil conflict and the 2001-2002 military stand-off. The American role in those crises is often referred to as crisis manager or secondary in the context of the region's strategic and crisis stability. A careful analysis of American diplomatic interventions, however, reveals that the role is much greater, c…
South Asia's Realist Fascination and the Alternatives
An intense debate on the meaning and nature of security and security studies' ontological and epistemological foundations is one of the defining features of post-Cold War international studies. Cha
The Belt and Road Initiative and the Politics of Connectivity
Managing India's nuclear forces
Nuclear Arms Control 1 Challenges in South Asia
The idea of arms control has hardly taken root in South Asia. The existing nuclear arms control measures between India and Pakistan are patently inadequate for addressing the pressing nuclear concerns of the region. Although there are compelling reasons for nuclear arms control, India and Pakistan are reluctant to undertake worthwhile arms control initiatives. There are three key reasons for this: India and Pakistan are currently at the formative…
Problems of National Integration in Bangladesh
Research Article| October 01 1989 Problems of National Integration in Bangladesh: The Chittagong Hill Tracts Syed Aziz-al Ahsan, Syed Aziz-al Ahsan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Bhumitra Chakma Bhumitra Chakma Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1960) 29 (10): 959–970. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644791 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & ta…
Bhutan's Foreign Policy
Research Article| November 01 1993 Bhutan's Foreign Policy: Cautious Self-Assertion? Syed Aziz-al Ahsan, Syed Aziz-al Ahsan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Bhumitra Chakma Bhumitra Chakma Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1993) 33 (11): 1043–1054. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644998 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementa…
Road to Chagai
Pakistan carried out six nuclear explosions on 28 and 30 May 1998 at the Chagai test site in reaction to India's conduct of five nuclear tests about two weeks earlier. Expectedly, the tests provoked strong international condemnation. On the eve of, and following the tests, Islamabad pointed out that its action was basically reactive to the Indian tests and necessary to ensure the survival of Pakistan. Indeed, since the 1960s, if not the 1950s, Is…
The NPT, the CTBT and Pakistan
Pakistan represents a case of non-compliance to the two most important treaties on non-proliferation—The Non-Proliferation Treaty and The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. This article surveys the changing contour of Pakistan's policy approach towards the NPT and the CTBT, and explains the underlying motivations and implications of the Pakistani postures. It analyses why Pakistan, despite supporting the final drafts, ultimately refused to sign the N…
Toward Pokhran II
The basic objective of this paper is to assess India's acquisition of nuclear weapons in light of the general debate why states 'go nuclear' and build nuclear arsenals. In general, analysts proffer four arguments about proliferation of nuclear weapons. They are: (1) security concerns; (2) prestige; (3) technological imperatives; and (4) domestic politics. The first posits that security concerns directly related to a state's physical security and …
South Asia's Realist Fascination and the Alternatives
An intense debate on the meaning and nature of security and security studies' ontological and epistemological foundations is one of the defining features of post-Cold War international studies. Cha
South Asia
Nuclear Arms Control 1 Challenges in South Asia
The idea of arms control has hardly taken root in South Asia. The existing nuclear arms control measures between India and Pakistan are patently inadequate for addressing the pressing nuclear concerns of the region. Although there are compelling reasons for nuclear arms control, India and Pakistan are reluctant to undertake worthwhile arms control initiatives. There are three key reasons for this: India and Pakistan are currently at the formative…
The post-colonial state and minorities
This paper argues that ethnocide in post-colonial states can be located in the interplay of three processes: (1) nation-building and development visions of the bureaucratic state; (2) the struggle for autonomy by the minorities; and (3) militarised pursuit of national security agenda by the bureaucratic state. The bureaucratic, political, economic, cultural and military penetration of the state into the territories of the indigenous communities o…
South Asia
Escalation Control, Deterrence Diplomacy and America's Role in South Asia's Nuclear Crises
This article assesses the significance of American diplomatic intervention in the de-escalation of two South Asian nuclear crises - the 1999 Kargil conflict and the 2001-2002 military stand-off. The American role in those crises is often referred to as crisis manager or secondary in the context of the region's strategic and crisis stability. A careful analysis of American diplomatic interventions, however, reveals that the role is much greater, c…
Managing India's nuclear forces
Liberal Peace and South Asia
Following the end of the Cold War, South Asia has been in transition in a number of ways. Based on the Kantian tripod of democracy, economic interdependence and institution, this article assesses whether liberal peace has taken root in South Asia. It concludes that although an incipient liberal order may be discerned in the region, South Asia has yet to change fundamentally to become a zone of liberal peace. Particularly the Indo-Pakistani relati…
International conflict over water resources in Himalayan Asia
Academic enquiries about Himalayan Asia generally tend to focus on politico-strategic rivalries and conflicts of the regional states. The rivalry between China and India, for example, has tradition
Eating Grass
Hindu nationalism and the evolution of contemporary Indian security
The publication of Chris Ogden’s book could not be more timely. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has become increasingly important in setting the direction of India’s foreign and security policy. T
Boundaries Undermined
Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 31(1), pp. 143–144
Saarc and region-building
‘Region’ is a contested concept. Although scholars have extensively debated the issue, there is no consensus on the definition of region. While some scholars emphasize geographic proximity as a key factor, others put importance to cognitive and ideational factors, yet some others seek to combine the two perspectives to define region. Against such a background, this paper explains the complexities of defining South Asia as a region. It explores th…
The BRI and India’s Neighbourhood
Chinese President Xi Jinping initially proposed to build an ‘economic belt’ and a ‘21st-century Maritime Silk Road’ in 2013 which were formalised as the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) in a docume...
The Belt and Road Initiative and the Politics of Connectivity
Does Implementation of ’Citizen’s Charter Make Any Difference in Service Delivery? Comparing the Performance of Local Councils between Plain and Hilly Areas—A Case of Bangladesh
This paper compares the impact of citizen’s charters in delivering services by Union Parishads in Bangladesh in Bengali-majority and tribal areas. Using a qualitative research method, the case study was used to look at CC implementation in a comprehensive and in-depth way. Interview and observation methods were employed to collect data. One hundred interviewees from each union, including service providers, service users, and LG officials, were co…
Demographic engineering
Population resettlement in contested ethnoterritories is an old practice that states have pursued for centuries. There is a nascent theory of demographic engineering to explain the phenomenon, although a robust theory on the issue is yet to be built. Theorists generally agree that states transfer and resettle populations to gain territorial control over contested ethnoterritories. But what is not clear in the current scholarship is how states acc…
Ethnocratic Statecraft and Conflict
Political science (20 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (10 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (9 works) · Development economics (8 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (8 works) · Politics (7 works)