Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Hossain, I (2025). “Not that Spirit of 1971”. The Ideological Origins of Bangladesh’s July Uprising. Journal of
Bangladesh Studies.27(2) 139–157

Peer-reviewed Chapters in Edited Volumes

Hossain, I (2026). The Promises and Pitfalls of Bengali Nationalism for the Buddhist Minority Groups in Bangladesh in
Sudhir Selvaraj and Paul Rowe (Ed.) Religious Nationalism, Minorities, and Democracy in South Asia. Palgrave
Macmillan. (Forthcoming)
Farrelly, N and Hossain, I (2014); From Bangladesh: Considering Another Side of the Rakhine Conflict in Nick Cheesman and Htoo Kyaw Win (Ed.). Communal Violence in Myanmar. MKS Publishing, Yangon

The Production of Electoral Competition in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Bangladesh.
Deflecting the Backlash: Minority Agency and Inter-communal Peace During the 2017 Rohingya Crisis

Revolutionary Re-institutionalisation: Gen-Z uprisings in the Global South and their Afterlives.
Between Arms and Activism: Political Subjectivities among Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh.
The Saffron Effect?: the Rise of Hindutva Political Activism in Bangladesh and West Bengal.
The Invisible Women: Understanding the Electoral Roles of Bangladesh Jamaat-i-Islami’s Female Political Workers.

Ishrat Hossain (2025), Bangladesh’s Democratic Transition: Revolution and Its Discontents, GIGA Focus Asia, 4,
Hamburg: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), https://doi.org/10.57671/gfas-25042
Ishrat Hossain (2023), Bangladesh’s Upcoming Election: A Litmus Test for Democracy, GIGA Focus Asia, 7, Hamburg:
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), https://doi.org/10.57671/gfas-23072
Ishrat Hossain (2020). After Humanitarianism: Bangladesh’s Evolving Rohingya Policy. GIGA Focus Asia Number 06.
October 2020 (ISSN 1862-359X)
Ishrat Hossain (2019). Buddhist-Muslim Relations in Southeast Bangladesh in the Shadow of the Rohingya Crisis,
Briefing Paper for the X-Border Local Research Network, The Asia Foundation, USA

Ishrat Hossain (2023). How acute is the threat to democracy in Bangladesh?. The Hundred. Number 54. 05 May 2023
Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other” by Francis Wade. Zed Books, 2017. Tea Circle, Oxford, 2018. (Book review)
Ishrat, Hossain (2018). Bangladesh balances between big brothers China and India, East Asia Forum
Ishrat Hossain (2018). Where Buddhism meets Islam: Communal Dynamics along the Bangladesh-Myanmar Borderlands, Lead article for the Common Knowledge Magazine, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission