BOOK REVIEWS
The author provides a breath-taking overview about the key features of the post pandemic world order and the role of Asian powers – India and China in this “New World Order,” which is being germinated at present.
The book is an easy read and a great journalistic account of India’s foreign policy expectations and realities. it highlights India's relations with the major powers and its neighbours in the subcontinent, Asia and the Indian Ocean.
‘China’s Future’ by David Shambaugh, a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University in US, is relatively small in size but unlike others it not only looks at economic aspects but also the social and political aspect while predicting China’s future.
The book is very helpful to have the overall understanding about Nepal as it covers almost all aspects of the country. It book is not only useful for research students but also for those who wants to understand different issues and challenges that Nepal faces in recent times.
The readers might find hard to catch the flow as one gets bombarded with lots of information and making reading the book quite difficult in the very beginning. Nevertheless, the book stands out to be significant for those who are looking for a more insightful, brief and factual study of Indian history in a milieu of the British colonialism.
The book provides the readers with the background of Bangladesh after independence, the struggle of supremacy between communism and capitalism, where the vital men themselves were involved in bringing about the ferocious coups and counter-coups in the uncontrolled period after independence, and their out-of-place nationalism and greed for power.
The book consists of wide range of topics on Foreign Policy of Nepal, foreign aid, refugee issue, contrasting narratives, water sharing, and debates on different treaties and so on. Most of the chapters are on bilateral relations of Nepal with various countries.