International

Nepal: King Birendra’s  Zone of Peace or dynamite?

P.R. Pradhan Chief Editor People’s Review Weekly, Kathmandu, Nepal Nepal’s geopolitical location is very sensitive for both the big neighbors – India and China. We have an open border with India, which is harmful not only for Nepal and India but also for another neighbor China. In every high-level bilateral talk, the Indian side raises questions […]

Nepal’s foreign Policy: Adaptation in Neighborhood-Part 1

Dev Raj Dahal Senior Political Scientist/Scholar, Nepal Nepal is a small state relative to its geographic, demographic, economic and military behemoth neighbors, India is 22 times bigger and China 65 times in size, but not remote from the great civilizations of the world and geostrategic attention of big powers. Its geostrategic location in the central […]

Nepal: King Birendra’s Zone of Peace Proposal (ZOP)

Isabelle Duquesne, International Relations Expert, France Introduction: The idea of Nepal as a ZoP (Zone of Peace) is traced back to King Birendra (reign 1972- 2001), who proposed it at a time when the region’s grand schemes of security appeared only too insecure to his sovereign country. The international community was supportive of the idea, […]