Pakistan's Search for a Foreign Policy After the Invasion of Afghanistan,

Abstract

This essay seeks to reconstruct Pakistan governmental perceptions of its foreign policy situation following the Soviet invasion. Necessarily speculative, it considers Pakistan's bill of constraints and limited options as Islamabad sought to define a response to the Soviet invasion that best served its interests. Its actions have often seemed to American observers half-hearted. But it can be argued that the government's policy of limited liability made the most of a much worsened security situation, which at the outset its neighbors did little to improve.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA136726

Entities

People

  • W. H. Wriggins

Organizations

  • foreign affairs ministry

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Arabia
  • Asia
  • Continents
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • Middle East
  • National Politics
  • Negotiations
  • New York
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Security
  • South Asia
  • United Nations
  • United States
  • Ussr

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security