Re-engineering Nepal’s foreign policy

Nepal needs to clearly define and actively pursue its priorities and national interests.

Since the second half of the twentieth century, Nepal’s foreign policy has predominantly revolved around India and China, against the backdrop of India’s independence in 1947 and China’s takeover of Tibet in 1950. The policy focused on safeguarding sovereignty and territorial integrity in addition to achieving economic wellbeing and prosperity, and has not seen much change ever since. In the recently integrated yet challenging world of internationalisation, often called a multipolar world, Nepal must re-visit and re-frame its foreign policy paradigm.