Crafting Pragmatism in Geopolitics

This book examines how Bangladesh identifies and navigates the challenges of great-power competition, climate change, and economic uncertainty through pragmatic multi-alignment. Drawing on rich case studies, it explores how a rising South Asian economy seeks to convert geopolitical vulnerability into diplomatic agency, offering practical insight for policymakers and a framework for academics researching foreign policy, geopolitics, and small-state diplomacy in the Global South.

Opening with a conceptual framework linking metageopolitics, soft power, and strategic autonomy, the volume moves through eight thematic chapters covering the foreign service institutional role, competing narratives from international bilateral development partners, migration and diaspora diplomacy, pharmaceutical trade, climate leadership, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda, before closing with development financing and supply-chain resilience amid US-China rivalry. Blending theory with policy analysis, this book speaks to specialists and general readers interested in Bangladesh, South Asia, and twenty-first-century geopolitics