A new realism
From the Blog pakteahouse *by Saad Hafiz* [image: modiobama] President Obama’s recent visit to India, while ignoring Pakistan, is being seen as a “diplomatic failure of Islamabad”. Failure or not, the visit does warrant a review of the effectiveness of Pakistan’s foreign policy given the changing nature of a state and the realities of the international scene. Generally speaking, a country’s foreign policy is the face that it presents to the rest of the world and should, therefore, be based on a unified vision of the national interest. In foreign policy terms, one good definition of vital national interests is those “conditions that are strictly necessary to safeguard and enhance the well-being of the people in a free and secure nation”. Weak states like Pakistan, defined by underdevelopment, economic pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
0 comments :
Post a Comment