News, Views From Nepal

Yuba Nath Lamsal:---- The world is in a poly crisis. Wars, ethnic conflicts, geopolitical tensions, economic downturn, trade wars, disruption in the supply system, cybercrimes and climate change are posing a threat to humanity. These crises have become increasingly acute over the years. However, rulers, politicians and power brokers have either miserably failed to assess the situation or simply lack the intent to address the problems for their narrow national and political interests rather than the larger cause of humanity. Instead, they are trying to exploit the crisis for political and partisan benefits. Global geopolitics keeps changing. Big powers are always the key players in global and regional geopolitics. Powers rise and fall that change the nature, course and hotspots of geopolitics. As European countries like the United Kingdom, France, and Germany were the key powers in the 19th century, Europe was the centre of international power. European countries colonised almost the...

Yuba Nath Lamsal:- Foreign policy is a country’s fundamental principle and foundation for conducting relations in the international arena. Countries adopt well-defined foreign policies to serve their national interests abroad, based on which diplomacy and diplomats operate. As diplomacy is a form of political interaction in the international arena, it requires special skills, acumen, and expertise. In the modern globalised, interconnected and interdependent world, countries are required to have multiple engagements and relations with states, sub-states, and super-states as well as super-national entities like international and regional organisations. Sometimes diplomats are, thus, assigned to build relations with and engage even non-state actors. Unlike in the past, the functions of diplomats are multi-dimensional and they are required to possess skills and knowledge to deal with diverse matters ranging from political, strategic, security, economic, trade, to climate change and t...