Commentary

Nepal: Origin of Civil Society Ancient Period-Part 5

Dev Raj Dahal, Kathmandu, Nepal -Continued from the last issue. The general Asian family values make the change process elite-driven and trickle-down. In Asia social change is incremental overlapping tradition and modernity. On the one hand citizens are loyal to authority, order and hierarchy on the other hand there is progressive erosion of this culture […]

A risk prone descent of a new cold war in a still wintery High North

Professor Tone Bleie, Norway Onset of a biting cold in the High-North:   In the Arctic capital Tromsø on 69.6492° north last week gave us a welcome spell of spring.  A warming sun began melting one meter of hard packed snow.  Suddenly temperatures fell drastically.  Since yesterday we found ourselves again in a frozen white land. The […]

Enhancing Nepal’s Foreign Policy Effectiveness in the Emerging Geopolitical Context

Lal babu Yadav Associate Professor Central Department of Political Science Tribhuban University and Constituent Assembly member, Nepal The Context: Foreign policy as a means of statecraft has become one of the most important mechanisms to defend national interests in this globalised world. In doing so, foreign policy needs to be attuned in such a way […]

Nepal Foreign Policy: Challenges and Opportunities and Changing Security Spectrum of South Asia and Beyond

Professor Gopal Pokharel, Kathmandu, Nepal Introduction: Foreign policy is rightly understood as the extension of domestic policy. It has also been a rational explanation of a country’s external behavior. The foreign policy of any country truly represents its core national interest and is rightly taken as a judicious mix of continuity and change. As a […]