(Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2014) Maria Bastos
This article aims to explore the way modernity has been impacting Pakistan’s
foreign relations and policy, and whether it is relevant to use modernity as a
political concept in order to understand them. The article is also an attempt to
contextualize International Relations beyond the norms of Western Enlightenment
by highlighting the real possibility for adoption of an interdisciplinary ground in
order to approach foreign relations. To be sure, most of International Relations
theoretical basis used to study Pakistan foreign relations is situated within the
realist paradigm. This fact comes with no surprise give the historicity of this young
nation, and the context on which its foreign relations were built over the past sixty
years, with particular attention to the Cold War scenarios, which left a significant
mark in South Asia region in general and in Pakistan in particular.