COLUMNIST: SYED RAIYAN AMIR

The Energy Mix We Can’t Escape: Why No Single Source Can Carry the Load

Aug 5, 2025 | Feature Article

In the early 2000s, Denmark mdash;wind-swept and forward-looking mdash;poured resources into transforming its energy pro ...

Energy Diplomacy in Transition: Rare Earths, Renewables, and the Strategic Tug-o...

Aug 5, 2025 | Feature Article

In the backdrop of a rapidly changing global energy landscape, rare earth elements (REEs) have emerged as both the linch ...

How China’s Oil Strategy Is Quietly Raising Tensions with the United States? En...

Aug 5, 2025 | Feature Article

There rsquo;s something brewing beneath the surface of the world rsquo;s energy trade, and it rsquo;s not just oil. For ...

What Happens If Putin Ignores Trump’s August 8 Ultimatum? A Deadline Approaches...

Aug 5, 2025 | Feature Article

With August 8 drawing closer, all eyes are on Moscow. President Trump rsquo;s ultimatum mdash;to end the war in Ukraine ...

Why the Latest Tariffs Are Reshaping Global Trade and Making Everyone Rethink St...

Aug 5, 2025 | Feature Article

When the United States announced a sweeping set of new tariffs on more than 60 countries mdash;some going up to 50% mdas ...

Why Trump and Medvedev’s War of Words Pushed U.S. Submarines Toward the Brink?

Aug 5, 2025 | Feature Article

It started, as these things often do now, with a post. Not a press release, not a policy paper mdash;just a few lines on ...

Is Trump’s Nuclear Submarine Maneuver a Strategic Message or a Risky Gamble?

Aug 5, 2025 | Feature Article

In a political atmosphere already heavy with tension, US President Donald Trump rsquo;s decision to reposition two nucle ...

Was the EU’s Trade Deal with the US a Strategic Compromise or a Capitulation?

Aug 2, 2025 | Feature Article

Sometimes international negotiations don rsquo;t happen in fancy halls or behind closed doors in Brussels. Sometimes, od ...

De-Europeanization in Motion: How Africa Is Rewriting the Rules of Power and Par...

Aug 2, 2025 | Feature Article

Right between the docks and the rickety rail yard in Dakar sits a battered bronze showing two WWII infantrymen mdash; D ...

From Versailles to Vienna: Can Iran Echo Germany’s Post-War Resurgence?

Jul 14, 2025 | Feature Article

The collapse of empires, the coercive imposition of peace treaties, and the humiliation embedded in diplomatic language ...

Russia’s Strategic Influence on the Naval Modernization of North Korea: A Silent...

Jul 14, 2025 | Feature Article

The spectacle of a capsized warship at the Chongjin shipyard might seem, at first glance, a mere technical mishap mdash; ...

Is NATO Recalibrating for a New Global Security Architecture?

Jul 14, 2025 | Feature Article

Europe Re-Armed: NATO rsquo;s Pivot, and the Making of a New Strategic Order The NATO Summit held in The Hague ...

How AI Generative Models Can Shape the Future of Energy Diplomacy

Jul 13, 2025 | Feature Article

The ongoing transformation of global energy systems mdash;accelerated by climate concerns, geopolitical shifts, and tech ...

Arctic Frontlines: Energy, Strategy, and Security in a Melting Geopolitical Core

Jul 12, 2025 | Feature Article

The Arctic has shifted from being a remote frontier to a vital component of international power politics. As global temp ...

Two Weeks of Ambiguity: Trump’s Calculated Pause, Europe’s Diplomatic Push, and ...

Jul 3, 2025 | Feature Article

In the face of escalating Iran-Israel tensions, Donald Trump rsquo;s declared two-week delay in deciding U.S. involvemen ...

Why Israel Chose This Moment to Attack Iran: Strategic, Political, and Ideologic...

Jul 3, 2025 | Feature Article

In a region where history echoes louder than diplomacy, the question of why now? reverberates through the smoking ...

Regime Change, Migration, and Money on the Move: The Two-Way Traffic of People a...

Jun 28, 2025 | Feature Article

It rsquo;s one of those overlooked things in global politics mdash;how when a regime falls or shifts in South Asia or Af ...

Syed Raiyan Amir

Senior Research Associate/ Research Manager at the KRF CBGA. More Senior Research Associate at the KFR Center for Bangladesh and Global Affairs (CBGA).
Feature Writer at The Financial Express.
Feature Contributor at the Industry Insider.
Former Research Assistant at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Former Research Assistant at the International Republican Institute (IRI).
Fromer Intern at the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI).
Former Leadership Development Coach at the Leaping Boundaries Leadership Academy.

Area of Interest
International Relations and Geopolitics
Energy Policy and Transition
Artificial Intelligence in the Energy Sector
Economic Diplomacy and Trade
Strategic Security Studies
Digital and Technical Education in Bangladesh
Leadership, Management, and Organizational Development

He can be reached at- [email protected]