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Insights Shaping Global Policy

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

Like a seasoned mountaineer traversing crevasse-ridden terrain between two tectonic plates, Nepal currently navigates an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape where competing gravitational pulls...

The global order fractures before collective eyes, transforming pleasant fictions into harsh geopolitical realities where great powers submit to no constraints and middle-small...

The adage possesses brutal clarity: absent a position at the table, a nation inevitably appears upon the menu. For Nepal, this aphorism transcends...

The contemporary global economic order, a sprawling architecture of neoliberal capitalism, currently hemorrhages under the weight of its own systemic contradictions, leaving landlocked...

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Rev. M L King Jr. A human becomes a good...

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...