The Normative Awkwardness of Pakistan

Vandamme, Dorothée
(2022) Awkward Powers: Escaping Traditional Great and Middle Power Theory — ISBN: [978-9811603693], published

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Pakistani scholars have long struggled to understand the type of power that is Pakistan. Theoretical insights into its position in the international system are few and sparse, ranging from middle power to rogue to deviant state. Both empirically and theoretically, Pakistan is frustrating, contradictory, and challenging. Pakistan’s ideational and political processes illustrate that its actions and endorsements of MP roles are the result of a social status-seeking process, not an identity/self-conception process. The chapter shows that Pakistan adopts a behavior of mimicry to gain the benefits associated to MP status, but it does not define itself as an MP per se. Ultimately, the chapter demonstrates that Pakistan can be considered as an awkward middle power based on normative factors.
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Vandamme, D. (2022). The Normative Awkwardness of Pakistan. In D. Abbondanza, T. Wilkins (ed.), Awkward Powers: Escaping Traditional Great and Middle Power Theory. Palgrave MacMillan. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/224513