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Insights Shaping Global Policy

Showcase research work, policy papers, and thought leadership contributions.

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...

People in affluent, “developed” nations often live like the trapped gunner in Jarrell’s ball turret and the statistic in Auden’s dossier: compressed, counted,...

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...

The twenty-first century stands at a decisive intersection—between division and unity, between isolationism and collective destiny. As artificial borders harden and digital walls...

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

Gold, Oil, and Drugs function as three of the most powerful levers of wealth, power, and geopolitical leverage in the contemporary world economy...

Nepal’s strategic capitals, understood as a deliberately selected constellation of external and internal power nodes rather than mere administrative seats or diplomatic outposts,...

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