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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,...

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...