BIPSS Issue Brief
Maritime Security
Issue Brief 4, January 2009
BIPSS Issue Brief on "Maritime Security" is focused on one of the major national security challenges to Bangladesh. Bangladesh has a vast marine area which is quite important for economic and security reasons. In the backdrop of the recent standoff between Bangladesh and Myanmar in the aftermath Myanmar's attempts for exploration of oil and gas in the claimed marine area of Bangladesh. The issue brief focuses on the issues and problems of demarcation of maritime borders with both India and also include some policy recommendations.
Environmental Security.
Issue Brief 3 , August 2008
BIPSS Issue Brief, Climate change is becoming one of the most important human security issues of contemporary international arena. Environmental degradation and its associated affects on national development have already Internally Displaced persons (IDP). The Issues Brief illustrates various problems faced by Bangladesh to effectively deal with climate change and proposes policy recommendations in this regard.
Energy Security
Issue Brief 2, July 2008
This Issue Brief has identified some of the challenges facing Bangladesh and South Asia. It has highlighted some of the means through which to allay strategic concerns of future energy supplies. The region faces an impending energy shock. In response, institutional change needs to happen swifty and in the form of basic energy management, better transmission unfrastructure, and greater efficiency and something as rudimentary as the drafting of countrywide energy strategies must be developed as a basic minimum.
Securitising Food
Issue Brief 1 ,June 2008
BIPSS Issue Brief, June, 2008 edition has just been published. The Issue Brief highlights the challenges and implications of food security; an emerging lexicon in the current international security agenda. The brief concentrates on the drivers affecting the food crises within South Asia generally; looking more specifically at the impacts upon Bangladesh. It also outlines possible way forward to mitigate immediate and mid-term repercussions of the crises.