Tag: #geopolitics
Articles tagged with #geopolitics
When geopolitics becomes lived reality
It is one thing to analyse geopolitics from a distance, it is another to sit at home, phone in hand, watching alerts multiply
Foreign hands, or homegrown failure?
Why Nepal’s crisis is better explained by institutional decay rather than external conspiracy
Violations of Nepal’s airspace during WWII
Rana rulers objected to planes flying overhead, fearing invasion or divine anger
Might might be right, after all
What the new world order post-Venezuela means for small countries with big neighbours like Nepal
Some chicken, some neck
New book explores strategic importance of the narrow corridor that joins India to its northeast
Neighbourhood watch on Nepal
More than a month after the GenZ protests, next-door nations keep a watchful eye on the country
India’s reckoning with its dangerous neighbourhood
While the recent eruption of unrest in Nepal is not uncommon for a region that remains in perpetual crisis, it does represent a dangerous new trend
When Xi meets Modi and Oli
That Beijing has once again ignored Nepal’s claims on the Limpiyadhura Triangle vis-a-vis New Delhi points to need for urgent diplomacy by Kathmandu to arouse sensitivity
What China wants
China has no interest in filling America’s shoes, it is focused on the domestic economy
Turning point in US-India relations
In the face of Donald Trump's capriciousness, India will not panic, but it might pivot
Looking beyond two boulders
Nepal cannot choose its neighbours but there is a whole other multilateral world out there
Love thy neighbours
There are lessons for Nepal from the way Finland balanced its foreign policy during the Cold War.
National insecurity
Nepal’s strategy of equidistance is fraying at the edges as Kathmandu is buffeted by countervailing pressure from north and south
Nukes in the neighbourhood
The water war has arrived in South Asia sooner than any of us imagined it.
How to agree an armistice in Ukraine
Lessons from Korea that promotes patient diplomacy and no political interference at the other side of the agreed boundary
India has arrived
Despite its vast potential, India was long overlooked by the West, both economically and geopolitically. No more.
A past foretold
Two new books urge Nepal to leverage relations with China and India in its own national interest
Upper Arun question mark
Indian displeasure makes World Bank and ADB to go quiet on what could be Nepal’s largest hydro project
How the media shapes Bangladesh-India ties
The Indian media is destabilising the chance of an understanding between the two countries
Adani in Sri Lanka
The new government is reconsidering the $442 million Indian scheme approved by the previous government
CHINDIA
India agreed to a troubled truce with China, but hold your applause
Climate security and geopolitics
In the run-up to COP29, a conversation with political scientist Ian Bremmer on balancing zero-sum geopolitics with decarbonisation
The Evolution of Empire
Empires are like living organisms, they grow, mature, and die
The geopolitics of Nepal’s politics…
…as the Subcontinent becomes a political, economic, and socio-cultural battleground for Asia’s emerging powers