1. Introduction: Bangladesh & the Changing Global Rivalry: An Inside-out Appraisal of Bangladesh -- 2. Bangladesh-India Relations: Transitions at the Core -- 3. "Shining"or "Suffering" South Asia: China's South Asian Footprints -- 4. China, India, Myanmar: Playing Rohingya Roulette -- 5. Encircling India: China Tightens Soth Asian Noose -- 6. Gender-benders in off-shore Production: Bangladesh-China Comparisons -- 7. Trading with China, India, and the United States: Bangladesh's Track-record -- 8. China's and India's Latin Entry: Old-model Revival? -- 9. Asia, Latin America, & Globalization: Close Encounters of a Third Kind -- 10. South Asia in Strategic Competition: Tracing Chinese, Indian, & U.S. Footprints -- 11. Conclusions: Global Leadership of a Glocal Kind?
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This edited volume examines global power-rivalry in and around South Asia through Bangladeshi lenses using imperfect and overlapping interest concentric-circles as a template. Dynamics from three transitions --the United States exiting the Cold War, China emerging as a global-level power, and India's eastern interests squaring off with China's Belt Road Initiative, BRI--help place China, India, and the United States (in alphabetical order) in Bangladesh's "inner-most" circle, China, India, and the United States in a "mid-stream" circle, and the United States and Latin America, among other countries, in the "outer-most" circle, depending on the issue. In an atmosphere of short-term gains over-riding long-term considerations, the desperate, widespread search for infrastructural funding inside South Asia enhances China's value, raises local heat, releases new challenges, with costly default consequences looming, issue-specific analysis overtaking formal bilateral relations and a stubborn uncertainty riddling the Bangladeshi air as its policy preferences stubbornly show more certainty.