Jon Danilowicz is a retired Department of State Senior Foreign Service Officer with extensive experience in South Asia. During his career, Jon provided leadership at some of America’s most dangerous and challenging diplomatic posts. His career highlights include service as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassies in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Juba, South Sudan and as Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Peshawar, Pakistan.
In the before times, I provided examples of the “elevator speeches” I would have given to former Bangladesh Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina and Begum Zia and their colleagues in the run up
There was no template for Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus when he accepted the responsibility of leading Bangladesh’s interim government following Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s August 5 abdication in the face of
This view has been informed by my evaluation of the 2007-08 Caretaker Government, which lost all of its leverage over the political parties once it announced that elections would take place by
This view has been informed by my evaluation of the 2007-08 Caretaker Government, which lost all of its leverage over the political parties once it announced that elections would take place by
Welcome to the inaugural issue of SA Perspectives, a monthly publication focusing on human rights and democracy in South Asia. As a new year dawns and we embark upon this journey together,
As I think about U.S. policy towards Bangladesh over the past several months, I can’t help shaking the feeling that those who believed that Washington would act differently than it had in