Views

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 […]

NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir spacewalks in Virtual Reality (VR)

Katrin Fidencio, San Diego, USA **The Future we had imagined is becoming reality** Sitting in the window-filled dome of the International Space Station, watching out at the Earth’s bended skyline and afterward down at the unthinkable rug of the planet looking by, causes me to feel like I’m in space. Yet, I’m not. I’m watching […]

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 […]