Nepal: Strategy for Survival
Author:
Leo E. Rose (Forward by John Whelpton)
Category: Nepal 
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The most formidable problem of Nepalese foreign policy has long been how to preserve national independence in the face of threats from abroad. Hence the interest of this book, which traces Nepalese foreign policy during the past two centuries, with particular reference to the influences exerted on this policy by China, Great Britain, Russia, and India.
The book merits attention for another reason as well. Social scientists have usually perceived contemporary international relations in terms of the major powers; such attention as they have directed toward the roles of the smaller polities in world politics has generally been confined to collective units such as the “third world,†the “remerging†nations, or the “Afro-Asian states.†Only rarely has the policy of a single small country, such as Nepal, Attracted attention and consideration in depth. Accordingly, considerable interest attaches to the present study of the processes and styles with which a small state in a precarious geographical situation confronts and confounds the intrusionist and directive policies of major powers.
Dr. Rose, the foremost American authority on the politics of Nepal, is a member of the Political Science Department, University of California, Berkeley, and Associate Editor of the monthly magazine Asian Survey.
