There are various factors that contribute to promising and sometimes disappointing foreign policy outcomes adopted by Nepal and India regarding one another. It is hence virtuous to uncover the camaraderie and the discords that the foreign policy is facing. Foreign policies of both Nepal and India endures from contradiction, ad hoc measures, and inconsistency with an absence of short- and long-term strategic approaches narrating polarity of unilateral, bilateral, regional and multinational facets of relations, with an inclination to the Rational Actor model of diplomacy. The policy deficit and the influence of the institutions like the intelligence community, diplomatic community, the security community or personal association in the political settings has been the impulsive element for driving foreign policy, which has proved to be short lived. It is more driven by personalities who direct politics and polities lacking strategic outlook–like the 12-point agreement without an exit strategy. Security has been the driving factor rather than politics-diplomacy-security.

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