Regional Affairs

Pakistan in the Global Nuclear Order

Executive Summary -Zafar Khan and Rizwana Abbasi, Islamabad ( Islamabad Papers 2016) India introduced nuclear weapons in this region in 1974, compelling Pakistan to pursue a similar path. Indian nuclear explosions in 1998 forced Pakistan to develop a more elaborate nuclear force posture, doctrine and command and control system. Pakistan developed its nuclear weapons programme […]

Nepal’s Foreign Policy: Game Changer

Dev Raj Dahal Senior Political Scientist, Nepal Globalization has put all civilizations into a melting pot encouraging each to learn from others for peaceful coexistence and coordinate their policies to resolve problems of a region and global scale. It is also a powerful game-changer. Its unregulated processes often create winners and losers akin to a […]

Nepal: GLOBALIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF NEPALESE ECONOMY-part 2

Economic Nationalism Revisited-Part 2 Professor Madan Kumar Dahal (Late) Senior economist and former Chairman Mega Bank, Nepal The fundamental problem facing Nepal in the context of industrialization is the acute shortage of electricity that has not only discouraged foreign direct investments and portfolio inflows but also distorted the investment climate. The commitments shown in the […]

Nepal: Studying the International Relations in South Asian regions

Katrin Fidencio, San Diego, USA (with the help of a Nepali professor Prayash Chandra Ghimire) Abstract: The poor ability of the western studies in international relations to describe and explain, much less predict, the behavior of states in the global South is recognized as one of their primary shortcomings. This in part accounts for the […]