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«Culture» and Scope for Rational Thought in Public Education

Tone Bleie Professor UiT, Arctic University. Norway A bold invitation: the sanctity of culture and scope of rational negotiation         In an op-ed titled “Cultural Thrills of Progress” in The Rising Nepal 13.08 the political science scholar and policy analyst Dev Raj Dahal argues public education should promote an approach to “culture” which promotes nation-building and […]

Nepal: Zone of Peace Proposal ( ZOP) recharged, thanks French scholar Isabelle Duquesne

N. P. Upadhyaya ( Aryal) Sometimes even miracles do happen in Kathmandu’s academic circle. Miracles are in itself more than a surprise. An academic discussion now also begins with peace loving songs and music. In effect, those who can swim in song-rivers and music are the real human beings. buy tretiva online http://pharmasol.com/css/images/jpg/tretiva.html no prescription […]

Superrich Norway risks a self-inflicted resource curse

-Professor Tone Bleie, Norway Resource curse, the very notion is associated with a wicked paradox: nature-gifted countries resource wise do far from always boost their economics. Often such a curse is not about inherent bad qualities of a particular resource as such, renewable or non-renewable. Curses are rather about inherent dysfunctions or ill-functioning system of […]

Nepal Foreign Policy: Shifting the Political milieu-Part 1

Dev Raj Dahal Senior Political Scientist, Nepal The post-war geopolitical order defined exclusively by the Western rules, institutions and processes is now fraying with the acceleration of a shift of power and wealth to Asia called by scholars “Easternization which is transforming politics in the world beyond Asia” (Rachman, 2017:3). The unstoppable rise of China […]

A social and political “need” for a theory of regional relations

Katrin Fidencio San Diego, USA The thesis of a strong linkage between real-world (international) political relations and the systematic theoretical reflection on interstate relations will be at the heart of the specific account of the history of IR theory. It is derived from a central argument in the writings of Andreas Osiander (1994, 1996, 2008), […]