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Nepal: Sugauli Treaty-1816 & Breach of Recognized State Obligation

Dipta Prakash Shah It would be appropriate and justifiable to consider the East India Company’s ulterior motive beforehand in invading Nepal at various eastern, southern and western lands. They had pre-planned objectives in spreading the colonial domination throughout the Indian subcontinent. To this end they covertly prepared themselves and launched war against Nepal. They succe […]

No Special relation between Nepal and India

CP Gajurel, former Nepal Communist Party Maoist leader Concept of Sandwiched Nepal For many years the so called architects of the domestic as well as foreign policy used to reiterate the saying Nepal is sandwiched between the two big giants and through this they used to conclude that because of this natural liability Nepal cannot be a prosperous country […]

Threats to Nepal’s Vital Interests

 Retired Brigadier Ranadhoj Limbu, Nepal Army Put simply, security is a physical, mental, and psychological feelings, relative to time, space, environment, and consciousness levels of the people concerned. As, nothing in life, especially at the micro level, is more or less unrelated to security, misunderstanding arises regarding the meaning of security, at times. When talking […]

Nepal’s Foreign Policy: Issues and Interest

Sambhu Ram Simkhada, PhD Annette Baker Fox in her classic work The Power of Small States, Diplomacy in World War II, wrote The distinctive power of great states flows from their military strength For the Small state, diplomacy is the tool of statecraft. Historically foreign policy has been a vital tool of Nepali statecraft and […]

Stabilizing Ethno-Socio-Politico situations in Nepal

Professor Durga D. Poudel, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA The Great King Prithvi Narayan Shah has rightly said that “Nepal Char Jat Chhatis Barna Ko Shaja Phulbari Ho.” However, the ethno-socio-politico situation in Nepal has risen to such a dangerous level that every Nepalese needs to pay attention to it. Some political parties apparently have […]