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Nepal: Science Diplomacy to Attain Sustainable Development Goals

Dr. Rajendra B. Shrestha Former President of Nepal Council of World Affairs (NCWA) Abstract: Science, due to its international and universal nature, has the power to cross borders and connect different peoples, communities, and societies. “Science diplomacy” refers to three main types of activities: informing foreign policy objectives. Over the past decade, the use of […]

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’s Foreign Policy: Shifting the Political milieu-2

Dev Raj Dahal Senior Political Scientist, Nepal Europe is seeking its own political evolution probably to clinch Ostpolitik in diplomatic and ideological terms, a middle ground between America and Russia. It is evident from the EU’s solidarity with France against the US-Australia nuclear submarine deal. It ricochet General Charles De Gaulle’s free spirit in foreign […]

Pakistan in the Global Nuclear Order: Recessed Deterrence

-Zafar Khan and Rizwana Abbasi, Islamabad, Pakistan The term ―recessed deterrence was coined for India by Jasjit Singh and was later elaborated in Ashley Tellis‘s work in 2001 explaining what India‘s nuclear strategy would be after it tested its nuclear weapons in its May 1998 nuclear tests. George Perkovich called it ―non-weaponized deterrence. The aim […]

Baseball team to observe Apollo 11 with moon lander bobble head

Katrin Fidencio, San Diego, USA Kathmandu/San Diego, July 12, 2022: A space traveler will take to the field as a baseball player strolls on the moon — in any event, the last option in bobblehead design — as a component of NASA Night with the Houston Astros. Fans going to Saturday’s (July 16) ball game […]