Border expert Buddhi Narayan Shrestha's book 'International Boundaries of Nepal' has been translated and published in eight languages.
The english script book was published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Latvia, Europe in 2019. Now the book is translated into eight languages (Russian, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish) and published recently. Foreword of the book is written by Professor Martin Pratt, Former Director of International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU), University of Durham, UK.
Various items such as international boundary principles, stages of boundary making, reasons of boundary aggression, border disputed countries of the world, ways and means to resolve the issues, countries of the world who fought on the border issues, border diplomacy and other theoretical deliberations have been elaborated in the book.
This book could be read online and it has internationalized the Lipulek-Kalapani-Limpiyadhura border encroachment. According to the book, dialogue is the first and foremost way and means to resolve the Kalapani issue with India.
The book also discussed the Sagarmatha issue that was negotiated with China and its new height was announced jointly. Practical issues such as debate on the border marker # 57 with China, BRI of China and corridor of Nepal have also been elaborated.
Activities of the International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU) UK, Association for Borderland Studies of America, Borderland Research Networks of Africa & Asia, and Denmark based International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) have been described.
International border diplomacy, America-North Korea two-minute diplomacy, Trump ignored Nepal border on the world map, unquiet border between India and Pakistan, message of the Bangladesh-India border agreement has also been described.
With all these items, the book is useful for the border researchers and to prescribe as the basic course book on the boundaries for the college and universities. Due to the weight of the book, the European edition has been published in eight languages. This book was published a month ago by Nirala Series, New Delhi, as the South Asian edition.
