Bangladesh : Internal Dynamics and External Linkages/edited by Abul Kalam. 1996, xviii, 374 p., $20.
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. I. Internal dynamics: 2. The Bangladesh liberation war: a summon to memory. 3. Women in Bangladesh politics. 4. Generalist-specialist controversy in Bangladesh civil service. 5. Local self-government system in Bangladesh. 6. Deregulation of the Bangladesh economy: logic and reality. 7. Industrialization in Bangladesh: an evaluation of the strategies since independence. 8. Interactions between international financial institutions and the non-governmental organizations in Bangladesh. 9. Capital formation in Bangladesh through foreign investment: a case study on an MNC. 10. Combating poverty through employment creation: the Bangladesh experience. II. External linkages: 11. Normative trends, values, and Bangladesh foreign policy: a framework. 12. Strategy, geopolitics and Bangladesh foreign policy. 13. Economic diplomacy--the Bangladesh experience. 14. Bangladesh and the United States: dimensions of an evolving relationship. 15. Bangladesh-China relations: determinants and interlinkages. 16. Bangladesh-India relations: trapped in the nationalist discourse. 17. Bangladesh-Saudi relations: a study of Muslim fraternity. 18. Outlook and prospects under SAPTA: the Bangladesh perspective. 19. Aid conditionalities and the implications for democratic governance in Bangladesh. Index.
From the preface: "The current compilation represents, hopefully, the first of a series of efforts of the kind. It brings together ideas of some eighteen distinguished authors, who have expertise in their respective fields. Ideas raised in two parts cut across domestic politics as well as external relations. Issues in the domestic front encompass the memory of the liberation war itself, gender, bureaucracy, local self-government, industry, economy, non-governmental organizations, multinational corporation and poverty alleviation. In the sphere of foreign relations, the authors have offered their analytical thoughts on the framework of foreign policy, strategy and geopolitics, economic diplomacy, on the pair of relations involving countries such as the United States, China, India, Saudi Arabia, and finally, on South Asian Preferential Trade Arrangements and international aid conditionalities."
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