CONTEMPORARY GEOPOLITICS IN CENTRAL ASIA: IMPEDIMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PAKISTAN

Authors

  • Tanweer Shahid Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad
  • Adam Saud Department of Humanities & Social Science Bahria University, Islamabad.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v4i2.524

Abstract

Central Asia and Pakistan embrace distant neighbourhood and cordial relations. However, affluent potential of their relationship remained untapped and almost stagnant. This soaring state undergoes a pull and push of geopolitical contest of great and rising powers - ‘the new great game’, in Central Asia. The United States, Russia, China, India and their antagonism share convergence and divergence of interests. This interplay casts their positive and negative impacts on the future relations of Pakistan with Central Asia. This qualitative research, based on inductive reasoning, analyses impediments and opportunities for Pakistan in the Central Asia vis-à-vis the power play therein. Being devoid of a common border with Central Asia, Pakistan can acquire energy security and geopolitical weight engaging Central Asia whereas the latter can access the world through Pakistan’s Gwadar port and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, unshackling off Russian dependency. Central Asia and Pakistan has potential to rejuvenate their relationships.

Keywords: Geopolitics, Great game, Central Asia, Great powers, Foreign policy.

Author Biographies

  • Tanweer Shahid, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad

     

     

     

  • Adam Saud, Department of Humanities & Social Science Bahria University, Islamabad.

    Dean

     

Additional Files

Published

2022-06-30

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2022): Pakistan Journal of Social Research PJSR

Section

Research Article

License

Copyright (c) 2022 Tanweer Shahid, Adam Saud

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

How to Cite

[1]
“CONTEMPORARY GEOPOLITICS IN CENTRAL ASIA: IMPEDIMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PAKISTAN”, Pak. J, Soc. Sci., vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 717–726, Jun. 2022, doi: 10.52567/pjsr.v4i2.524.