Abstract
The paper attempts to analyse the raison d’être of Pakistan's
foreign policy, which principally has been to safeguard and
sustain its sovereignty against Indian threats. Its bilateral
relationship was basically constructed on tactical convergence
in view of the peculiar global strategic structure. Pakistan had
relied exclusively upon the dynamics of the Regional Security
Complex, (RSC) without ostensibly understanding the
intricacies of the transitory nature of the state‘s relationship
with other states.
The paper concludes that in a conflict of interests between
states, the strong state with global outreach would prevail
against the weaker state reliant on the RSC, without
thoroughly understanding the dynamics of the nature of world
politics and that, in essence, no country betrays, rather it is the
shifting goal-posts of interests that compel them to realign
their policies. When the interests of the United States
conflicted with Pakistan in the mid-1970s, their relationship
too, came under stress on a number of issues, including
nuclear non-proliferation.
Dr. Zulfqar Khan. (2013) A Retrospective Perspective on Pakistan-United States Relations: 1947-1977, IPRI Journal, Volume-13, Issue-2.
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