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Title Incorporating Nontraditional Security Threats in Pakistan’s National Security Discourse: Environmental Challenges

Author(s) Zain Ali

Abstract Abstract The security discourse of Pakistan has remained territory-centric due to Indian hegemonic ambitions and New Delhi’s anti-neighborhood policy. Moreover, New Delhi’s opposition to the creation of Pakistan further hampered Pakistan’s desires for managing security threats beyond the traditional domain. Gradually, an overwhelming wave of non-traditional security threat in the world politics compelled Pakistan to consider the potential of non-traditional security threats where the environment challenges have become an undeniable force. The leading architectures of national security strategy from Islamabad have started realizing the significance of non-traditional security threats generally, and environmental challenges particularly in Pakistan. This thought forced the mainstream political leadership to alter the traditional security discourse of Pakistan because it is difficult for Islamabad to manage escape from the emerging wave of nontraditional security threats. Where all states are equally vulnerable, the government of Pakistan needs to focus more on the security threats of non-traditional nature. Therefore, the research focuses the implications caused by the environmental challenges on socio-economic structure of Pakistan. Research has mainly focused two areas of environment, climate change and water scarcity in Pakistan respectively. Rapid surge in temperature, irregular weather and depletion of water resources or reservoirs is going to disturb the lifecycle since Pakistan is a large populated state with majority of its workforce indulged in agriculture, therefore the effects of environmental degradation cannot be marginalized at any cost which is the central theme of this research. It is an endeavor to integrate the threat of environmental challenges in the mainstream national security discourse of Pakistan.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Social Sciences

Department International Relations

Language English

Publication Date 2021-08-24

Subject International Relations

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