A Brief Survey Of Relations With Super Powers

Foreign relations:
Foreign relations refers to the management of relationships and dealings between countries.
Any results of foreign policy dealings and decisions can be considered foreign relations.

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of states.
It usually refers to the conduct of international relations through the intercession of
professional diplomats with regard to a full range of topical issues. Diplomacy entails influencing
the decisions and conduct of foreign governments and officials through dialogue, negotiation,
and other nonviolent means.

Diplomacy is the main instrument of foreign policy, which consists of the broader goals and
strategies that guide a state's interactions with the rest of the world. International treaties,
agreements, alliances, and other manifestations of foreign policy are usually negotiated by
diplomats prior to endorsement by national politicians. Diplomats may also help shape a state's
foreign policy in an advisory capacity.

Foreign relations of Pakistan:

Islamic Republic of Pakistan maintains a large diplomatic network across the world. Pakistan is
the second largest Muslim-majority country in terms of population (after Indonesia) and is only
Muslim majority nation to have tested nuclear weapons.

Pakistan's economy is integrated into the world with strong trade ties to the EU and economic
alliances and agreements with many Asian nations.

Pakistan has a strategically important geo-political location, has Afghanistan, China, India and
Iran in immediate neighborhood, is at the corridor of world major maritime oil supply lines, is
located between gas & oil rich middle east and world's population centres (East & South Asia).
Pakistan has been maintaining a tensed relationship with neighbouring Republic of India and
close relationships with People's Republic of China and Arab nations. Pakistan is a member of
the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), is named by the US as a major non-NATO ally in
the war against terrorism and one of founding members of IMCTC.

Pakistan's Foreign Policy seeks to protect, promote and advance Pakistan's nati meonal interests
in the comity of nations.
M A Jinnah's Vision On August 15, 1947, outlining the foreign policy of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam
observed:

“Our objective should be peace within and peace without. We want to live peacefully and
maintain cordial and friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with world at
large. We have no aggressive designs against any one. We stand by the United Nations
Charter and will gladly make our contribution to the peace and prosperity of the world.”

Foreign relation with Super powers:

A superpower is a state with a dominant position characterized by its extensive ability to exert
influence or project power on a global scale. This is done through the combined-means of
economic, military, technological and cultural strength as well as diplomatic and soft power
influence. Traditionally, superpowers are preeminent among the great powers.

The term was first applied post World War II to the United States and the Soviet Union. For the
duration of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union dominated world affairs. At
the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, only the United States
appeared to be a superpower. Alice Lyman Miller defines a superpower as "a country that has
the capacity to project dominating power and influence anywhere in the world, and sometimes,
in more than one region of the globe at a time, and so may plausibly attain the status of global
hegemony". Few countries have the potential to become superpowers; China is now considered
an economic superpower, but presently lacks several factors including military and soft power to
be widely recognized as a global superpower.

A potential superpower is a state or a political and economic entity that is speculated to be—or
to have the potential to soon become—a superpower.

Currently, only the United States fulfills the criteria to be considered a superpower. China on the
other hand, has been referred to as an emerging superpower, given that Beijing's power is now
beyond the classification of a Great Power.

The European Union[5] and the emerging BRIC economies comprising Brazil,[6] Russia,[7] and
India[8] are most commonly described as being potential superpowers.