Nepal Strategy For Survival

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 reemerging" 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.