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PAKISTAN IDENTITY IN FOREIGN POLICY AND ANTIWESTERNISM

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpsrr.2022(V-I).01      10.31703/gpsrr.2022(V-I).01      Published : Dec 2022

Pakistan: Identity in Foreign Policy and Anti-Westernism

    This article aims at dealing with different dimensions of Pakistan’s foreign policy, particularly the challenges to it during and after the Cold War. These challenges were mostly unilateral in the sense that Pakistan was captive to the grand American design in the Middle East and in Western Asia. There is much anti-American and anti-Western rhetoric by right-wing parties, both religious and non-religious, particularly after 9/11. The article attempts on developing an understanding on identity constructions that accompanied the Pakistani foreign policy collaboration with USA., the research seeks to understand what national identity constructions were attempted by the Pakistani foreign policymaking elite in the context of a foreign policy convergence between Pakistan and the USA. Therefore, examines the contradictions in the attempts at identity construction that how Pakistan the pursuit of security and consequent policy is accompanied by certain identity constructions highlighting the conformity non-conformity" of the element of "anti-western

    Pakistan Foreign Policy, Anti-Western Sentiments, Politics
    (1) Noor Fatima
    Chairperson, Department of International Relations and Political Science, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Imran Ashraf
    Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Fatima, Noor, and Imran Ashraf. 2022. "Pakistan: Identity in Foreign Policy and Anti-Westernism." Global Pakistan Studies Research Review, V (I): 1-14 doi: 10.31703/gpsrr.2022(V-I).01
    HARVARD : FATIMA, N. & ASHRAF, I. 2022. Pakistan: Identity in Foreign Policy and Anti-Westernism. Global Pakistan Studies Research Review, V, 1-14.
    MHRA : Fatima, Noor, and Imran Ashraf. 2022. "Pakistan: Identity in Foreign Policy and Anti-Westernism." Global Pakistan Studies Research Review, V: 1-14
    MLA : Fatima, Noor, and Imran Ashraf. "Pakistan: Identity in Foreign Policy and Anti-Westernism." Global Pakistan Studies Research Review, V.I (2022): 1-14 Print.
    OXFORD : Fatima, Noor and Ashraf, Imran (2022), "Pakistan: Identity in Foreign Policy and Anti-Westernism", Global Pakistan Studies Research Review, V (I), 1-14