Beyond Maritime Cooperation: The Quad's Security Architecture and India's Strategic Opportunities and Way Forward?
Quad enables India to pursue its strategy of multi-alignment while preserving strategic autonomy. ...
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The U.S.-Iran 14-Point Agreement: Strategic Breakthrough or Fragile Peace in the Gulf?
The U.S.-Iran 14-point Interim Peace Agreement illustrates both the possibilities and limitations of diplomacy in a highly polarized regional security environment. ...
Energy Security in South Asia: Balancing Growth, Sustainability, and Regional Cooperation
South Asia will be better prepared for its next energy shock when electricity moves according to shared rules and resilient infrastructure, rather than temporary surplus and exceptional permission. ...
Diplomacy on a Budget: Analysing Nepal’s 2026 Budget as a Catalyst for Soft Power and Economic Diplomacy
The 2026 budget marks a decisive moment in Nepal’s foreign policy evolution. By anchoring its diplomatic strategy in the bedrock of economic interest and soft power, Nepal is attempting to navigate the complexities of a competitive global environment with greater agency. ...
Critical Minerals and the Emerging Geoeconomic Competition in Asia
Critical minerals are emerging as one of the defining strategic resources of the twenty-first century. As economies move toward advanced manufacturing, renewable energy, and digital transformation, competition over mineral supply chains is likely to become increasingly significant. ...
Nepal’s Balancing Act: Navigating Great-Power Competition in a New Era
Nepal, under its youngest-ever Prime Minister, is attempting something genuinely new: refusing to be just a chessboard square in someone else’s game and instead trying to be a player in its own right. ...
Geopolitical Sensitivity of Nepal: A Historic Perspective
Despite the challenges exerted upon it, the positioning of Nepal between two rising powers of Asia can be a strategic leverage to enhance Nepal’s global interactions and its foreign policy aspirations in the international arena. ...
Power and Permission: How India Gatekeeps Nepal’s Electricity Exports to Bangladesh
Nepal had the water, and Bangladesh had the demand. The shortfall reflected a single administrative decision: India’s Central Electricity Authority (CEA) declined to approve the increment, citing capacity limits on the transmission system that carries the power across Indian territory. ...
India-Nepal Bilateral Relation in the 2020s: with Reference to the Role of Tourism
India-Nepal tourism thrives on deep cultural, religious, historical and geographic ties, with India as the largest source of visitors due to open borders and shared pilgrimage sites like Pashupatinath and Lumbini. ...
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From Protest to Parliament: The Test of Democratic Maturity for Nepal
The critical question confronting Nepal’s new political order is therefore not whether democracy can survive, but whether democratic institutions can translate political legitimacy towards promised economic transformation and maintain public trust. ...