Open AccessManaging national security interests amidst military major powers' military engagements
Author(s) -
Kosh Raj Koirala
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
unity journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2773-8167
pISSN - 2717-4751
DOI - 10.3126/unityj.v1i0.35696
Subject(s) - china , national security , political science , competition (biology) , autonomy , context (archaeology) , economic growth , development economics , public relations , law , geography , economics , ecology , archaeology , biology
Existing literatures on the strategic competition between India, China and the US have largely focused on general patterns and trends of their cooperation and engagements in Nepal, including on how China has made its forays in Nepal with its assertive foreign policy overtures since 2008. What has been overlooked, however, is how these three countries are quietly competing with each other to enhance their engagement with the national army. The growing competition among these countries is likely to pose serious challenge to the national army as an institution to exercise its strategic autonomy in its decision making process if some cautions are not exercised in advance. This paper highlights on competing and conflicting interests of major powers to enhance their engagements with the national army in Nepal, and the ways to overcome potential challenges, such military engagements may entail in the future. It also offers a context of the discussion with a brief overview of changing strategic environment in the Asia Pacific in the past 10 years and how Nepal has transformed from a backwater to strategic epicenter for major powers.