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Nepal: Fifty Years of India’s Foreign Policy

2 years ago Tuesday, January 31, 2023telegraphnepal

M. R. Josse Former Editor-in-Chief The Rising Nepal, Kathmandu. Nepal This is not a traditional book review; it is a critique of the former Indian Foreign Secretary J. N. Dixit‘s preachy, didactic “Across Borders: Fifty Years of India’s Foreign Policy” (Picus Books, New Delhi, 1998). Dixit is lavishly praised for painting “a broad canvas, stretching […]

High-quality Diplomacy for a New Nepal

2 years ago Sunday, January 29, 2023telegraphnepal

Chiran S. Thapa Member Nepal Council of World Affairs ( NCWA) Questions were raised about Nepal’s history of independence as we applied for membership of the United Nations in the late nineteen hundred forties ‘No foreign flag has flown over Nepal’. This was the gist of the explanatory note buttressing Nepal’s sovereign independence. It was […]

Nepal: Fukuyama’s Prophecy and China’s Democracy

2 years ago Wednesday, January 25, 2023telegraphnepal

Professor Dr. Shreedhar Gautam Secretary General Nepal Council of World Affairs (NCWA) Nepal Francis Fukuyama made a prophecy after the end of cold war that “World history has reached its final destination with the end of communist empire in Soviet Union”. What he had in mind was that Western type democracy as understood in the […]

Nepal: Has ‘Opposition’ less erstwhile Panchayat System revived?

2 years ago Tuesday, January 24, 2023telegraphnepal

N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal) Biratnagar: The Nepali Congress which claims as the oldest party of Nepal and also considers itself as democratic political conglomerate , but in essence it isn’t. In effect, the Nepali Congress is a party which is run under the whims of the sitting President. The manner this party exhibited haste in […]

Globalization is faceless but its impact on small states like Nepal is tangible

2 years ago Monday, January 23, 2023telegraphnepal

Professor Dev Raj Dahal Kathmandu, Nepal In the phase of globalization, small states seek to create normative standards to measure the shortfall of great powers’ geopolitical maneuvers, fight for justice in the international system and apply their tricks of the trade to acquire space for independent maneuver. Defining Nepal’s foreign policy as one of nonalignment, […]

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