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Social democracy is under attack today. This is not because of the collapse of communism. It could not be because social democracy has little in common with communism practised as Marxism-Leninism or otherwise, except for the common parentage and early childhood - this too, only if we ignore the socialistic spirit and ideas that were there before Karl Marx. Social democracy as we understand by...
Bibliography of articles that are held in the Contributions to Nepalese Studies over the twenty-five years up to 1997. This Special Issue is the Silver Jubilee edition of the journal. Started in 1973, it is published twice a year, and publishes articles on Nepalese Studies focused on art and archaeology, history, historical-cultural forms, religion, folk studies, social structure, national...
There are different forms of intellectual property of which copyright is one of them. Copyright deals with that part of intellectual property which falls under the domain of literary, scientific and artistic works. It is a limited monopoly granted to authors to protect their works from unauthorised copying. With the rapid development in information and communication technologies, the scope of...
The right to a country of one's own, i.e. "to belong to a sovereign state" is considered to be the most "primordial right" of a person. The very existence of a state essentially lies in the realisation of this right as well as the general well-being of its people. People living within the state are entitled to fair and equal treatment irrespective of race, religion, language or belief. The...
The evolution of a political party affects its foreign policy. There are different modes of thinking on organisational evolution, concerning relations between official aims and organisational behaviour. The normative approach regards that the goal of the party determines its mode of action. A party, in its formative phase, is undoubtedly treated as an instrument for the realisation of specific...
Making the Bhutanese foreign policy understandable is a difficult task for the author, at least for two obvious reasons. The first is that he is a Nepali who has studied the historicity of the state to state relations subsisting between Nepal and Bhutan in both spiritual and cultural terms. He is amused to hear that the same traditional, spiritual and cultural heritage are reasons for the...
Be it a developed or a developing nation, the concept of elite has most frequently been invoked in explaining the problems and prospects of social change. Nevertheless in the Third World social system, such a tendency is more apparent as the social order, usually, in these areas, is a function of the political leadership or elite dynamics. There are differences of opinion among social...
Baral, L R; Hachhethu, K; and Sharma, H; 2001, Leadership in Nepal. Adroit Publishers, Delhi, India.
This book presents the findings of a survey of the background and attitudes of a sample of national and local political leaders carried out by the Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies with assistance from the Embassy of Finland in Nepal. The authors are well-known scholars, two of whom...
International relations has been taught in Nepal over the last 40 years, but has never emerged as an independent discipline on its own. There are a number of factors responsible for this situation, among which include the political conditions in the country, the rather slow growth of the manpower needed to teach the subjects, as well as the poor resource base from which it has had to operate...
Women as a category had entered into the United Nations' agenda since its very onset. The Commission on Status of Women (CSW) was established at the United Nations (UN) in 1946 as a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ESC). This Commission was to create guidelines and formulate actions to improve the situation of women in the economic, political, social, cultural, and...
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