Nepal’s engagement in multilateralism

Abstract

The fundamental goal of this study is to elucidate Nepal's engagement in multilateralism, with an objective to assess how presence in multilateral forum is drive and influenced by the initiatives taken by Nepal and show how multilateral approach plays a crucial role in influencing international presence of Nepal in world politics and in order to overcome vulnerabilities. With its unique geopolitical situation along with the globalized and changing dynamics of world politics, the behavior of Nepal in multilateral arena is often informed by its multilateral strategies, which dictate how Nepal behave in multilateral arena. Here in this dissertation, the driving factors are analyzed to assess Nepal's preference for multilateralism. Having analyzed driving factors, findings indicates that Nepal's preference of multilateral presence is not only influenced by its driving factors, but by the limiting factors and available multilateral strategies. Moreover, the findings conclude that effective use of multilateral foreign policy strategy become a vital tool for effective international positioning and focalization of Nepal's multilateral relations that in term can derive great contributions and the string representation of Nepal at regional and international agenda. Nepal in the modern world does not want to be left behind the other nations and it's representation in the international arena. In this changing dynamics of world politics Nepal face day to day the crucial need to explore new diplomatic mechanism and strategies which can be used either in bilateral or multilateral engagements. Keywords: Multilateralism, multilateral approach, international arena, strategies