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Dr Dinesh Bhattarai

Dr Dinesh Bhattarai

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The rise of identity politics in the 21st century

Globalization created both winners and losers. It created inequality, and divided society into a class of rich and poor, haves and have-nots, and widened the gaps between them, inviting a backlash with rising inequality and growing trends of de-globalization unfolding deeply.
Jul 16, 2025
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Nepal-China Relations: A Perspective

In recent years, great power rivalry has resurfaced. The early months of 2025 have accelerated unfolding geopolitical trends causing tremors far and wide with far reaching implications making the world increasingly fragile with growing domestic and economic tensions, rising populist nationalism and...
Jun 19, 2025
OPINION

Lessons from Bangladesh

South Asia is currently facing a period of widespread uncertainty and instability. Over the last three years, the months of July and August have marked significant upheavals in the political landscape, with leaders from the region fleeing their countries after protesters came to seize their residenc...
Oct 02, 2024
OPINION

BP Koirala in the lens of changing geopolitics

BP Koirala was the first elected Prime Minister of Nepal. In the first ever general elections held in Nepal in 1959, his party Nepali Congress obtained two thirds majority in the House of Representatives.
May 02, 2024
OPINION

Underlying messages of the Xi-Putin summit

United States Relations with China (290) and Cold War International History Project Bulletin contain records of correspondences between Mao Zedong and Josef Stalin, 13 January 1949, (6-7, 27-28) stating that on January 8, 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek appealed to the United States, the Soviet Union...
Apr 09, 2023
OPINION

Ukraine, Non-alignment, Nepal and South Asia

We live in an age of great power competition, and extreme volatility. The unprecedented rise of China began geopolitical realignments in different parts of the globe. The process was further accelerated by the outbreak of Covid- 19 pandemic, war in Ukraine and other multiple crises raising several q...
Mar 31, 2023