News, Views From Nepal

Yuba Nath Lamsal:-- Domestic politics and foreign policy are interlinked. Domestic politics is concerned with relations among different political actors and stakeholders within a country, while diplomacy is politics among countries on an international scale. Politics deals with the internal governance of a country and diplomacy is concerned with international governance. Every country thus adopts a broad policy and accordingly uses tools and tactics to protect and promote the interests of the country in the international arena. Foreign policy is, therefore, called an extension of domestic policy. But this might not always be the case. Sometimes, it may be just the opposite. There are cases and examples when external dynamics have changed the domestic political course in some countries. The world is more interdependent and more interconnected than ever before, owing mainly to economic globalisation and advancement in the field of technology. No country in the world is fully self-rel...

Yuba Nath Lamsal:- Nepal is an ancient Himalayan country in South Asia with a long history of its continued existence as an independent state. Nepal lies on the southern slope of the mighty Himalayas, almost in a rectangular shape, bordering Tibet of China in the north and the great Gangetic plain of India in the south. The High Himalayan range forms the border with China in the north and no such geographical features mark the boundary with India in the south, while rivers (Mechi in the east and Mahakali in the west) form the borderline with India in the east and the west. Nepal is one of the oldest countries in the world and the oldest independent country in South Asia. When Nepal existed as a country, there were several kingdoms and principalities in the rest of South Asia. However, none of these principalities exists as a country at present. These South Asian kingdoms and principalities were taken over by external occupiers one after another, with Nepal being the only country to...