This paper attempts to demonstrate the nature and functions of US intelligence operations in the ... more This paper attempts to demonstrate the nature and functions of US intelligence operations in the contemporary world while juxtaposing their compatibility and consistency with relevant international legal frameworks. It has explored whether these operations of intelligence and counter-intelligence dynamism is being confined within the national issues of United States or time to time moving beyond opportunistically. After simultaneous and vigorous intelligence failure of 9/11 terrorist attacks and Iraq WMD intelligence failure (controversially intelligence propaganda) , the intelligence communities of United States have undergone extensive major reforms since 2005 when President George W. Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. But this diagnosis sheds light on the debate that in spite of being modified and revised these intelligence agencies have still remained the same prejudiced, arrogant and tyrannical institutions prioritizing national interests rather t...
The paper examines regional patterns of synthetic drug Yaba trafficking as a major challenge in t... more The paper examines regional patterns of synthetic drug Yaba trafficking as a major challenge in the governance system of Bangladesh. The heightened security threat has been recognized as one of the significant Transnational Organized Crimes (TOC) of Bangladesh since last few decades. Depending primarily on secondary literatures and expert interviews, this paper highlights such trafficking as an emerging source of regional instability and security threat. Bangladesh being both transit and destination country of South Asian and Southeast Asian Yaba trafficking network has been examined as a regional test case. A significant linkage of accessible BangladeshMyanmar Yaba trafficking routes with adjacent drug cartels of Golden Crescent, Golden Triangle and beyond has been traditionally highlighted as the prime reasons behind such instability. But the paper has argued about several alternative facilitators crucially indicating towards erroneous governance system revealing; capacity gap, ne...
This paper attempts to demonstrate the nature and functions of US intelligence operations in the ... more This paper attempts to demonstrate the nature and functions of US intelligence operations in the contemporary world while juxtaposing their compatibility and consistency with relevant international legal frameworks. It has explored whether these operations of intelligence and counter-intelligence dynamism is being confined within the national issues of United States or time to time moving beyond opportunistically. After simultaneous and vigorous intelligence failure of 9/11 terrorist attacks and Iraq WMD intelligence failure (controversially intelligence propaganda) , the intelligence communities of United States have undergone extensive major reforms since 2005 when President George W. Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. But this diagnosis sheds light on the debate that in spite of being modified and revised these intelligence agencies have still remained the same prejudiced, arrogant and tyrannical institutions prioritizing national interests rather t...
The paper examines regional patterns of synthetic drug Yaba trafficking as a major challenge in t... more The paper examines regional patterns of synthetic drug Yaba trafficking as a major challenge in the governance system of Bangladesh. The heightened security threat has been recognized as one of the significant Transnational Organized Crimes (TOC) of Bangladesh since last few decades. Depending primarily on secondary literatures and expert interviews, this paper highlights such trafficking as an emerging source of regional instability and security threat. Bangladesh being both transit and destination country of South Asian and Southeast Asian Yaba trafficking network has been examined as a regional test case. A significant linkage of accessible BangladeshMyanmar Yaba trafficking routes with adjacent drug cartels of Golden Crescent, Golden Triangle and beyond has been traditionally highlighted as the prime reasons behind such instability. But the paper has argued about several alternative facilitators crucially indicating towards erroneous governance system revealing; capacity gap, ne...
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