Bangladesh continues to face a threat from Islamic terrorism. However, the drivers of this phenomenon remain under-studied. Research has traced terrorism in Bangladesh to wider processes of Islamization; a political context marked by conflict between the country’s two main political parties and by authoritarian governance; the institutional weakness of the Bangladeshi security and justice system; and international factors, such as the Afghanistan War, influences from the Gulf, and more recently the Rohingya refugee crisis, as well as the increased interest of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in South Asia. Based on an analysis of the literature and interviews, I argue that while the growth of terrorism in Bangladesh has been a complex process in which all of these factors have interacted, different constellations of them have been decisive at different historical stages.

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孟加拉国的恐怖主义

孟加拉国继续面临伊斯兰恐怖主义的威胁。然而，这种现象的驱动因素仍未得到充分研究。研究已将孟加拉国的恐怖主义追溯到更广泛的伊斯兰化进程；以该国两个主要政党之间的冲突和专制治理为特征的政治背景；孟加拉国安全和司法系统的体制薄弱；和国际因素，例如阿富汗战争、海湾地区的影响，以及最近的罗兴亚难民危机，以及基地组织和伊斯兰国对南亚的兴趣增加。基于对文献和采访的分析，我认为虽然孟加拉国恐怖主义的发展是一个复杂的过程，其中所有这些因素相互作用，