Foreign Policy of Pakistan from 1947 to 2012
Pakistan Foreign Policy: Form 1947 to 2012 Shahnawaz Mohammad Khan PhD Candidate Department of International Relations FUUAST
Introduction
Foreign policies generally are designed to help protect a country’s national interest—national security, ideological goals, and economic prosperity. Owing to the anarchic nature of the international political system and the absence of a world government, states tend to feel a high degree of insecurity, as there is no guarantee of the security of a state in the system because war is the legitimate instrument of foreign policy of a state. Hence, each state knows that it has to depend on itself for its preservation and safety. Self-protection is the sole protection in an essentially anarchical system. The primary objective of this paper is to examine Pakistan’s foreign policy making and to analyze it in different eras.
Pakistan Foreign Policy
Pakistan’s foreign policy is an important and challenging subject, which has engaged the interest of scholars, analysts and researchers. Thus, the course of Pakistan’s foreign policy has been complex, and has passed through several stages during post independence political development. In the early years it generally adhered to a neutralist course. Then, it departed from this course, and became part of the US Containment Policy against USSR. Consequently, Pakistan got involved into Cold War global politics
Introduction
Foreign policies generally are designed to help protect a country’s national interest—national security, ideological goals, and economic prosperity. Owing to the anarchic nature of the international political system and the absence of a world government, states tend to feel a high degree of insecurity, as there is no guarantee of the security of a state in the system because war is the legitimate instrument of foreign policy of a state. Hence, each state knows that it has to depend on itself for its preservation and safety. Self-protection is the sole protection in an essentially anarchical system. The primary objective of this paper is to examine Pakistan’s foreign policy making and to analyze it in different eras.
Pakistan Foreign Policy
Pakistan’s foreign policy is an important and challenging subject, which has engaged the interest of scholars, analysts and researchers. Thus, the course of Pakistan’s foreign policy has been complex, and has passed through several stages during post independence political development. In the early years it generally adhered to a neutralist course. Then, it departed from this course, and became part of the US Containment Policy against USSR. Consequently, Pakistan got involved into Cold War global politics