Revisiting Nepal’s Foreign Policy in Contemporary Global Power Structure
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Revisiting Nepal’s Foreign Policy in Contemporary Global Power Structure
Publishers: GB Books
Year of Publication: 2017
About the Book
In few decades, China and India will emerge as the world’s largest economies. Asia’s growing economic power is being translating into greater political and military power. Asia’s rise is just beginning, and if the regional powers can remain stable, rapid growth could continue for decades. Hence, the rise of China as a great power is obvious. But it will not be alone as India and other countries of Asia would also exercise tremendous power. As a result, there will be global shift in the balance of power from West to East. With the dominance of Asian powers and their politics, experts claims that the 21st century belongs to Asia. In this changing global power structure, the book revisits Nepal’s foreign policy as both China and India will exercise tremendous power and will have greater say in the global politics. Moreover, the book seeks to understand the complexities and contradictions in Nepal’s foreign relations. Amidst the competitive co-existence between India and China, Nepal is looked upon as a buffer state between the two Asian giants. However, Nepal also seems to have its own expectations and interests in building harmonious relations with the two rising powers.
The book consists of 26 chapters on Nepal’s foreign relations explaining Nepal’s foreign policy strategy, its role in regional and multilateral forums and bilateral relations with different countries.