Geopolitics & Foreign Affairs
What Does A Post-Netanyahu Israel Look Like?
June 2021 saw the longest-serving Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, finally exit office after being in power for over a decade.[i] Israel has seen four general elections in the past two years, none of which could provide a...
Making BIMSTEC a Regional Vehicle for Nepal’s Economic Growth
Recently, the government of Nepal, led by Nepal Communist Party Chairman KP Sharma Oli who ascended to power in 2018, came up with an integrated foreign policy that reflects rapid changes in both the domestic and geopolitical spheres. The n...
Time to look and act East
While democracy is the most sought after means of governance, it becomes a farce when core values are compromised, like in the case of Myanmar The long-awaited goal of democracy in Myanmar was achieved in 2011 after a...
Mixed Legacy of Trump Administration in the Middle East
Donald Trump was ascended to the throne on a promise of “America’s First” which contradicted the US’s position on several foreign policy issues. His way of framing US foreign policy almost totally in business terms n...
Tale of Western Saviors – Lessons for strategic representation and discourse building
As Roland Bleiker rightly said in his article ‘The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory’ (2001) that, ‘the inevitable difference between the represented and its representation is the very location of politics&r...
Viral tragedy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Introduction: The spread of a virus, as fatal as the Coronavirus, constitutes an enormous threat to mankind anywhere in the world. The beginning of the new decade observed the entire world plunge into an extraordinary global public health...
South Asia’s Future: The Biden Way
With Joe Biden currently leading all the major polls with around 50 percent of Americans showing intent to back the Democrat candidate, the race for White House is shifting more and more away from Trump. Some of the statements during the on...
LDC’s and the Multi-Dimensional Threats posed by COVID-19: Brief Look at Nepal
As states grapple with the uncertainty of the near future, major global shifts have taken place in the short span of the Covid-19 spread. Global institutions have been warning leaders of the possible effects of a pandemic that has...
Nepal-Russia Relations: Strengthening the Cooperation
The diplomatic relations between Nepal and Russia was established on 20 July 1956. However, the economic and technical cooperation between them started since 1959. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)&...
Covid-19 and the Future of SAARC
SAARC had been dysfunctional for the largest period ever since its establishment in 1985. Although the postponement and cancelation of SAARC summits have happened before, this time it took South Asian Heads of Governments nea...