INSTABILITY IN NEPAL’S INTERNAL POLITICAL SETTING: ITS IMPACT ON GEO-POLITICS

Nepal, landlocked by Asian giants, Dragon and Tiger, is struggling with its internal political instability. On the one side, China is emerging as leader of Global South, extending its influence to the South Asia. On the other hands, India itself pursue as the leader of South Asia. The US is increasing its engagements in the region to deter China. Nepal situated in the geopolitical sensitive location striving with its internal political turmoil. Lack of the incom-petency of political leadership, internal conflict between political parties, is causing unstable government. This instability has raising public dissatisfactions. With observations of the internal politics and analyzing the available literature, this article concludes, Nepal is in risk of being pawn in the geopolitical competition and the battle ground for these competitions.

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