![Explainer: Nepal’s Rocky Road to Federalism](https://www.jurist.org/features/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/01/K5T25463_edited-1.jpg)
Nepal is a least developed, land-locked Himalayan country wedged between India and China. After a long period of instability, it adopted a new constitution in 2015, creating a multi-party federal republic. Previously Nepal had been a unitary state, albeit with a long period of political instability and insurgency. The first election under the Constitution was [...]