Pakistan's Multidirectional Balancing: A Realist Analysis of Strategic Autonomy in an Era of Great Power Competition
Journal: Social Sciences & Humanity Research Review
Year: 2025

Pakistan's foreign policy is at its most critical crossroads as the international system is changing to multipolarity instead of American unipolarity, forcing the middle powers to find a novel approach to great power rivalry without losing their strategic autonomy. This paper discusses Pakistan's current foreign policy in terms of realism theory and explains how Pakistan has embraced the concept of a multidirectional balancing approach to the changing international system. The research illustrat