Punsara Amarasinghe is a post-doctoral researcher affiliated with Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa. He is a PhD holder in Public International Law from the Institute of Law, Politics and Development at Scuola Superiore Sant Anna (Sant Anna School for Advanced Studies) in Pisa, Italy. He holds LL.M. from the South Asian University, New Delhi, and completed his undergraduate studies in law at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
He completed another master's degree in international relations from the HSE, Moscow. He has held two visiting research fellowships at the Global Legal Studies Centre at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Sciences PO, Paris. He was affiliated with the Minerva Center for Strategic Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem for a brief period in 2019.
The macabre sense of violence filled with gory killings and purging of government officials in broad daylight in every nook and cranny of Bangladesh since the complete collapse of Sheikh Hasina’s government reminds us of the prophetic words of Thomas Hobbes, who summed up human nature as “solitary, poor, nasty and brutish.” The trajectory that augmented the chaos in Bangladesh was, not surprisingly, rooted in a deeper economic crisis as it happened in neighboring Sri Lanka in 2022, where long petrol ques, shortage of foreign reserves, and ten hours of power cuts agitated the embittered folks to launch protest movements across the island, which ended up ousting the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Unlike the deteriorated economy that encompassed Sri Lanka, Bangladesh’s economy continued to thrive by leveraging the country’s capacity as the second-largest economy in........