Commentary

Federal Nepal’s strategic assets: a contemporary and historical glance

By Professor Tone Bleie, UiT- the Arctic University of Norway Understanding small states navigating great power rivalry: Small states maneuvering between great powers is not in any way a recent global and regional phenomenon. Currently, intensified influence of geography, economics, environmental change and demography on interwoven domestic and foreign politics – or geopolitics – gain […]

Strategic partnership: Moscow, Beijing and Islamabad!

N. P. Upadhyaya Kathmandu: A dossier released by the Kremlin, Russian Federation, dated January 17, 2022, reiterates that President of Russia Vladimir Putin and the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan have had a long telephone conversations and the two leaders talked on various contemporary international issues of mutual concerns. Needless to say, PM Khan and […]

Sri Lanka’s Equidistant Policy vis-à-vis India & China!

Ameen Izzadeen, Colombo, Sri Lanka The dollar-starved Sri Lankan government is buoyed that it has been receiving financial assistance from India and China, which are vying for the dominance of the South Asian part of the Indo-Pacific region. In recent weeks, regular announcements that the country has received currency swaps and credit lines from both […]

Taliban led-Afghanistan, UN, And Nepalese Prospective

Dr. Rambhakta Thakur Kathmandu, Nepal Preview: The fall of King Zaher Shah of Afganistan1 in a coup d’état in 1974 was the beginning of a revolution to establish Afghanistan Republic on national level. Mohammad Daoud Khan seized power. This political game gave a rise of the influence of the then Soviet Union who later invaded […]

Forms and Functions of Civil Society in Nepal

Dev Raj Dahal Senior political Analyst, Nepal Introduction: Civil society is a critical mass of human associations, identities, networks and movements of citizens formed to shield themselves from the arbitrary actions of the holders of power and wealth and cultivate their public will and action. The contemporary civil society discourses transmitted by citizens all over […]