Author : Anmol mukhia
Keyword : Ising power, emerging power, national interest
Subject : Multidisciplinary
Article Type : Original article (research)
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Abstract : The purpose of the study is to understand the small states role in safeguarding the national interest in the international politics. The paper will also explore more in understanding the role of local peoples living in the boundary region of Nepal. Theoretically Social Constructivism shows that ideas interest and identity plays an important role in exploring the gap in the literatures of Nepal. It also clearly demarcates with the states vies which are based in the realist paradigm of Kautilya and Sun Tzu. Empirically, Nepal and India’s border are open, so the people-to-people relations amongst the frontier inhabitants of the countries in social, economic and cultural fields have remained unparalleled in world history. Moreover, the border between Nepal and China is largely sealed and as such the border inhabitants among the two countries have not been able to obtain sufficient benefit at the local level. Therefore, it is possible that the people living along Nepal’s border regions with India and China would benefit more if connectivity is developed between the two sides of the border through roads, irrigation, communication and other infrastructural facilities. However, in order to safeguard Nepal’s national interest, the country has to take all possible precautions to ensure that the interest of its neighbour’s are not affected by the other, while avoiding further rivalry between them. Hypothetically, “a smaller state always gets more benefits from the stronger states in long run.†The paper also explains role of Nepal foreign policy, leading to the three conditional choices, which are 1) situational choice, 2) conditional choice and 3) discretional choice in safeguarding its national interest.
Article by : Anmol Mukhia
Article add date : 2022-07-13
How to cite : Anmol mukhia. (2022-July-13). Safeguarding the ‘national interest’ of nepal: analysis of india-china relations from social constructivism. retrieved from https://openacessjournal.com/abstract/1099