Commentaries

BBIN: The goal is noble but achieving it won’t be a cakewalk
• Commentaries • Geopolitics & Foreign Affairs • Economy & Connectivity Sep 17, 2017
BBIN: The goal is noble but achieving it won’t be a cakewalk

Regionalism has been an important strategic tool in the realm of international relations for uniform growth, across national boundaries and geographic barriers. We have seen the gradual rise of the European Union after the Second World War...

Time for Economic Diplomacy
• Commentaries Apr 23, 2017
Time for Economic Diplomacy

Still, the loud and penetrating voice of incumbent Health Minister Gagan Thapa echoes in my ears. “Nepalis had sent 1000 sacks of wheat to South Korea to feed its starving people after Korean War (1950-1953). And, now the same Nepalis...

Transitional justice, Only in name
• Commentaries Mar 26, 2017
Transitional justice, Only in name

The decade long bloody armed conflict ended on 21 November, 2006 after signing of Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA). Unlike typical UN peace model or international models which have already been practiced in other war torn states, reintegrat...

Trump, Taiwan and Turbulence
• Geopolitics & Foreign Affairs • Commentaries Jan 29, 2017
Trump, Taiwan and Turbulence

“There was no flashpoint between the superpowers during the Cold War that was as dangerous as Taiwan will be in a Sino-American security competition” a prominent structural realist, John Mearsheimer had said.Donald Trump no...

India-Bangladesh Economic engagement: Significant takeaways
• Commentaries Jan 20, 2017
India-Bangladesh Economic engagement: Significant takeaways

India's economic relations with Bangladesh have witnessed a significant rise. Today trade between India and Bangladesh is estimated at 7 Billion USD, and Bangladesh is India's largest trading partner in South Asia. Petrapole-Benapole Integr...

Promoting Cultural Diplomacy of Nepal
• Commentaries Jan 17, 2017
Promoting Cultural Diplomacy of Nepal

Every nation as a means of building and maintaining relationship with other states and with an aim to promote peace and cooperation in the world has applied every kind of tools and strategy of diplomacy. The end of two great wars and the tr...

Education in Nepal
• Commentaries Sep 23, 2016
Education in Nepal

Education… Seems like a big word but is it inclusive when only certain privileged sections of the world are allowed to pursue it? Forget the world and let us start with the country we live in. Is everyone educated?  Building up...

Is economics driving world politics or is it the other way round?
• Commentaries • Economy & Connectivity Aug 21, 2016
Is economics driving world politics or is it the other way round?

The agent of structural change in the world, extrapolating from theories of International Relations and International Political Economy and analyzing the events of past few weeks, are the interactions of power in the language of politics. T...

Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
• Commentaries Aug 15, 2016
Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

If a country wants to increase prosperity and welfare, then the country should focus on its economic growth. Most institutions in a country create the environment for the creation of wealth that leads to increasing economic growth. For this...

Venezuela and USA: Relations and Conflicts
• Commentaries Mar 01, 2016
Venezuela and USA: Relations and Conflicts

At the end of the 90's and concurrently at the turn of the centuries begins a period of cooling of relations between Venezuela and the other member states of the Andean Community of Nations, and even in some moments of a development of the...