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Insights Shaping Global Policy

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The convergence of self and state in Nepal’s present moment demands a conscious realignment of individual ambition with the strategic direction articulated by...

Reactive neutrality and hesitant diplomacy do not preserve order in the Israel-Iran-US conflict triangle; they prolong insecurity by rewarding escalation, confusion, and strategic...

Beijing bends time like a waveform, executing a temporal coup across the sine curve of civilization. It monopolizes not merely the hardware of...

Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author captures the essence of modern politicians who perform conviction rather than embody it. Like Pirandello’s...

Ambassador Dean R. Thompson’s tenure in Nepal from 2022 to 2026 elevated Nepal–United States relations to a new plane of mutual trust, strategic...

Gagan Kumar Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma today embody the most credible democratic alternative within Nepal’s contested political landscape, precisely because they seek...

The conceptual architecture of modern diplomacy often rests upon the evocative power of metaphor to bridge the chasm of geography. In October 1983,...

The contemporary Nepali nation-state confronts a precarious existential threshold, where the centripetal forces of historical unification succumb to the centrifugal pressures of modern...