Electoral coalitions are not new in Nepali politics. What distinguishes this one is the promise that it will deliver a different kind of politics.
Category: Geopolitics Analysis
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South Asia’s Difficult Year
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. It has been a rough year for South Asia, which has suffered surging terrorism, economic stress, diplomatic tensions, natural disasters, and the deleterious impacts of ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Predictably, the biggest stories from South Asia in 2025—some surprising, some less so—are mostly downers....
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Himalayan Sovereignty
Tim Marshall’s argument in Prisoners of Geography begins with a simple but unforgiving truth: geography is permanent, but policy is a choice. Mountains, rivers, borders, and proximity to power centers shape the outer limits of national behavior, yet within those limits, nations rise or decline based on clarity, discipline, and strategic will. Nepal stands as...
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233 years of Nepal-China diplomatic relation
2016 was celebrated as the bicentenary of diplomatic ties between Nepal and the United Kingdom. Officially, diplomatic relations between the two countries are said to have begun in 1816, the year Nepal signed the Sugauli Treaty with East India Company. The nine-article treaty was not signed between two sovereign states; rather, it was between the...
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Why Nepal’s Gen Z uprising is a wake-up call for New Delhi
Recent Gen Z movements in Nepal led to resignation of the KP Sharma Oli government, dissolution of parliament, and appointment of PM Sushila Karki. Nepal announced fresh elections on March 5, following a week of violence as an interim government headed by Karki took charge. The 2-day Gen Z protests on September 8-9 against a...
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Zero chance of restoration of monarchy in Nepal’: Ex-PM Bhat ..
Former prime minister of Nepal and one of the architects of .. Read more at:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/126242051.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
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South Asia’s Strategic Shift: How India Lost the Diplomatic Initiative With Its Neighbors
South Asia’s Strategic Shift: How India Lost the Diplomatic Initiative With Its NeighborsIdeological rhetoric and security-centric diplomacy have undercut the trust India fostered with its neighbors via previous economic engagement.
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BP Koirala’s Geopolitical Foresight
Nepal’s first-ever elected Prime Minister, BP Koirala, who the king dismissed after just eighteen months of a five-year term, was placed in solitary confinement for eight years and later forced into exile, chose to return home on December 30, 1976, ending eight years of exile in India. It has been 49 years since his return...
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Trade potential between Nepal and China is enormous: Dr. Gao
By Raman Paudel, Kathmandu, Dec. 1: China respects the Nepali people’s independent and autonomous choice of their country’s development path and direction, and will not interfere in Nepal’s internal affairs, said Dr. Gao Liang, Vice Director of the Centre for Nepal Studies at Sichuan University, China. Dr. Gao, who undertook a doctoral dissertation on governance...
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Nepal And Evolving New World Order
Ultimately, even the most dominant and carefully managed world order reaches a point of transition. History shows us that even the strongest empires have fallen. What we call “world order” is, at its core, a hierarchy of strength as Thucydides observed long ago, “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they...