How Nepal's Elections Imperil United States Interests

The United States has two major national interests in Nepal. It is to protect Tibetans from China and to adopt human rights in Nepal to strengthen the vulnerable democracy of Nepal. In the election of the second constitutional assembly election on November 19, 2013, both may be harmed. The United States is one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with Nepal in 1947. When threatening China to endanger the independence of Tibet in 1950, Washington equipped and supported the resistance of Kamba to Beijing and trained the CIA from Kathmandu to provide a safe way for Tibetans to escape from Tibet .

Nepal has nearly 60 years of peacekeeping experience and is a world leader in international peacekeeping. The US and Nepal recently gathered more than 30 countries to train a new generation of peacekeeping forces with the support of the US government's World Peace Initiative (GPOI). The Nepalese government and the US Pacific Command (PACOM) sponsors the Multinational Peacekeeping Operation Shanti Prayas III ("Peace Endeavor") at the Birendra Peace Operations Training Center (BPOTC) in Pascical, Nepal from March 20 to April Did. 68 United States of America and 540 Nepalese military personnel participated in this exercise with 460 personnel from 32 other countries.

It is widely expected that Nepal will finally be able to embark on the road of peace and economic development as the election day is getting closer. This is the first election in Nepal after democracy recovered in 1990, not social, economic and development problems, not political issues. In particular, Nepal expects the seven provincial governments established after the election to solve problems in rural areas. In the enactment of the constitution of Nepal, the parties chose federalism and thought that a single centralized government is a major barrier to the country's development process.

Recent elections in Nepal have successfully elected local governments and state autonomous government. Decentralization is expected to improve the "voice" of people, which in turn will make the staff motivate them to create governance from bottom-up by prioritizing local needs. This expectation assumes a causal relationship between decentralization and development, and such cooperation can easily fall into a trap. The elected local government should approach people and enable them to express their needs more effectively. However, according to the survey, there is a possibility that major companies, landlords, and other profit people "catch" local governments or dominate local governments. This "way of catching" is related to increased corruption, poor policy and procedural waste. This combination will ultimately harm development. In Nepal, past decentralization attempts led local plans for the elite group and caste