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Insights Shaping Global Policy

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Lonnie R. Pounders left this world on December 5, 2025. He entered it on March 26, 1967 in Alabama. Lonnie stood as a...

Nepal’s geostrategic locus requires to cultivate a foreign policy of sophisticated and principled balance, internalizing its geopolitical realities to ensure resilience and autonomy...

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

The foreign policy of Nepal needs a profound ontological transition from a historically defensive posture of survival to a proactive, multi-dimensional strategy of...

The precipitous convergence of Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah and Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) President Rabi Lamichhane into the “Seven Points Agreement” on December...

The violent paroxysms seizing the Kathmandu Valley in September 2025 signify a fundamental phase transition in the thermodynamics of Nepali statehood, where the...

The contemporary Nepali state occupies a state of profound liminality, characterized by a fundamental mutation of its political culture that transcends mere administrative...

The Judd home in Sheffield welcomed me with open arms, their door holding a warmth deeper than the Alabama autumn. I stepped inside...