Topic: Bangladeshs Indo-Pacific Outlook-2023: Its role to support Regional and International efforts towards combatting Transnational Organised Crim

Topic: Bangladeshs Indo-Pacific Outlook-2023: Its role to support Regional and International efforts towards combatting Transnational Organised Crime (TOC)

Research objective: This research will enable and outline the pragmatic role of Bangladesh in the regional and international framework in combatting Transnational Organised Crime in the Indo-Pacific.

Primary Question:

To what extent can Bangladesh contribute to support regional and international efforts in combatting Transnational Organised Crime in the Indo-Pacific region?

Secondary questions:

What is the present status of TOC in the Indo-Pacific?

What are the regional and international efforts in combatting such threat in the Indo-Pacific?

What role can Bangladesh play to contribute to maximising regional and international efforts to countering Transnational Organised Crime as declared by its Indo-Pacific Outlook-2023?

You can get Bangladeshs Indo-Pacific Outlook-2023 (IPO-2023) online, or I can send a copy. In the IPO, there are 15 set objectives. Support Regional and International efforts towards combatting Transnational Organised Crime (TOC) is the number 4 objective.

Research Paper Structure

INTRODUCTION

1. Statement of the Research Question A brief statement of the central question, problem, or challenge that your research project seeks to answer, address, or meet or the knowledge gap that it seeks to fill.

2. Elaboration of the Research Puzzle Outline further what you expect to investigate, show, or reveal in your paper, and what your key arguments are. For example (these are examples only, not prescriptions) if it is a conceptual project your paragraph could start with something like, In this paper I will argue that ; or if it is a comparative or empirical project your paragraph might start with something like In this paper I will show that ; or for some historical projects, your paragraph might start with something like In this paper I will investigate . The goal here is to answer the what question what is this paper about?

3. Method The method you intend to apply in your research paper to data collection and analysis. For some disciplines this will be more specific than for others, but in all cases the goal here is to answer the question how will you show what you intend to show?

4. Significance A concise account of where your paper might break new ground and/or what you expect this paper will achieve in terms of your contribution to knowledge. The goal here is to answer the question why is this a worthwhile study?

5. Structure and Caveats (if any) Provide an overview of how your paper is structured. You might also want to consider including in the final paragraph of your Introduction what might be some of the limitations of your paper, and how will define the scope of your study.

BODY

6. Context Provide a background to your topic-area: what does the current state of affairs look like? How does this pertain to your research question?

7. Literature Review This should be a thematic review of the academic and/or policy scholarship on your topic of inquiry. You should think about the key publications bearing on the question you are addressing, the popular concepts and major debates that exist on your chosen topic, and the strengths and weaknesses of existing studies on your topic.

8. Conceptual or analytical framework (if any) Are you drawing on any concepts and/or theories to frame and/or inform your analysis? If so, then how do they pertain to your analysis? Why are they the best concepts and/or theories to leverage? Note that not all papers will need to have a fully fleshed-out conceptual or analytical framework section. Sometimes the analytical framework can be embedded into your literature review, for instance.

9. Case studies (if any) Does your paper draw on any empirical cases that you will look at in greater depth in order to support your arguments? This is where you want to set up sections to delve into each of your cases. Usually, for a 5,000-word essay, you should not have more than 3 cases. Remember to aim for depth rather than breadth, so even one good case can be good enough to support an entire analysis!

Please add the case study (Piracy) Hijack of Bangladeshi flag career ship MV ABDULLAH by Somali pirate on 12 March 2024. (https://www.dw.com/en/somali-pirates-free-bangladesh-cargo-ship-after-ransom-paid/a-68815716#:~:text=Somali%20pirates%20released%20the%20hijacked,members%20had%20been%20released%20unharmed.)

Please add one case study of drug smuggling (as you feel relevent) and one on Human trafficking (Rohingya trafficking) in the Indo-Pacific.

(https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/05/death-abuse-and-torture-traffickers-hold-fleeing-rohingya-to-ransom-for-up-to-3000-a-time#:~:text=Rohingya%20trafficking%20victims%20and%20their,or%20die%20along%20the%20way.)

10. Discussion of findings If you are looking at more than one case, it can be useful to have a discussion section to bring your findings together. However, if you have just one case that you examined, then this section can also be integrated with the summary of arguments/findings section in your Conclusion.

CONCLUSION

11. Summary of arguments and findings Youre nearly at the end! What you want to do here is to rehearse the key arguments and findings that your paper puts forward. Really drill it into the reader as to why your paper matters and sheds new light on the issue-area.

12. Implications of findings for the literature and/or policy So, what? This is where you answer this question and bring home the point to the reader that the findings in your paper have real implications to the body of knowledge and/or to policy understanding of the issue.

13. Recommendations (if any If youre writing more of a policy-driven paper, then this is where you can detail the key recommendations you feel that the Australian Government (or any other State) should take away from your paper.

Please add holistic approach both political/diplomatic and military options as policy recommendation. One of the recommendations should be deployment of Bangladesh Navy platforms in the Gulf of Aden/ Strait of Hormuz as part of CTF 150/CTF151/CTF152.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

You can aim to have a list of around 40-50 references (e.g., academic books, journal articles, literary sources, memoirs, policy reports, official statements, media reports, commentary pieces, etc.) which are important to your research project.