Rediscovering Balanced Foreign Policy

Nepal’s foreign policy goals are well articulated in its constitution. They offer a frame and choices for leadership to define the values, institutions, processes and strategies in attaining them. Owing to a lack of full grasp of constitutional duty and conduct, courage and imagination about them, Nepali foreign policy is, however, less tuned to coherence, balance and effectiveness. As a result, it is self-limiting the nation’s credibility, capacity and diplomacy. The world is now more divided than the past with the surge of several poles of power where each has its own purpose. They are engaged in various scales of relationship with each other, sometimes overstretching influence and even overstepping in the internal affairs of other states. National interests, defined as an ultimate priority to self, are a vital force before the fleeting ideologies and regime compatibility with the external world.