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YUba Nath Lamsal In international relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interests’. British statesman and Prime Minister Lord Palmerston or John Henry Temple said this more than one and a half century ago while explaining pragmatism in the conduct of foreign policy. This dictum continues to guide countries particularly big powers even today to justify their policy and pursuit in the domain of international politics. The conduct of international relations is akin to domestic politics. Foreign policy is said to be extension of domestic policy. In politics, strangers become bed fellows. Relations between politicians is always guided by partisan interests. Their relationship is often unpredictable and unstable depending upon the situation and context. Similar is with the international relations. Countries adopt their policies and maintain relations with other countries to suit their national interest. The world has never remained standstill bu...

 Yuba Nath Lamsal Ray Dalio, in the book ‘Principles of Changing World Order’ says “no system of government, no economic system, no currency, and no empire lasts forever.”  Empires do not reign forever. The world is constantly changing and evolution is the law of nature. Change is continuous process and it happens in the geopolitics and international politics as well.  Roman, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Japanese, Mongolian, Mugal, Maurya and several other empires, which once appeared invincible, were finally dumped into the heap of history giving rise to new powers. Such is the phenomenon of history. In the similar fashion, the present world order, too, is likely to fall and a new one will replace it.  Trends are already visible to give birth to a new world order. However, uncertainty reigns supreme as to when this will happen and what exactly the new world order would look like. Empire or superpower is the term that symbolises military, economi...