All Outputs (5)

Guest editor's note (2010)
Journal Article
Chakma, B. (2010). Guest editor's note. India Review, 9(3), 295-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2010.506345

Special issue of India Review: Confidence Building and Nuclear Arms Control in South Asia

Nuclear arms control challenges in South Asia (2010)
Journal Article
Chakma, B. (2010). Nuclear arms control challenges in South Asia. India Review, 9(3), 364-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2010.506354

Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme: Past and future (2010)
Book Chapter
Chakma, B. (2010). Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme: Past and future. In O. Njølstad (Ed.), Nuclear Proliferation and International Order: Challenges to the Non-proliferation Treaty (26-38). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203844823

The Pakistan government launched a nuclear power programme in the mid1950s. At the time of launching the programme, there was no evidence that it intended to build nuclear weapons. In the 1960s, however, Pakistani attitude towards nuclear weapons mod... Read More about Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme: Past and future.

The post-colonial state and minorities: ethnocide in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh (2010)
Journal Article
Chakma, B. (2010). The post-colonial state and minorities: ethnocide in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 48(3), 281-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2010.489746

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 p... Read More about The post-colonial state and minorities: ethnocide in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.

Structural roots of violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (2010)
Journal Article
Chakma, B. (2010). Structural roots of violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Economic and Political Weekly, 45(12), 19-21

The continued violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh is rooted in the state's policy of erasing the ethnic identity of the indigenous people and usurping their land for settling Bengali-speaking populations. In this, Bangladesh has foll... Read More about Structural roots of violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.