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Title Role of Think Tanks and Study Centers in Pak-China Relations

Author(s) Umme Farwah

Abstract Abstract Basic premise of my study is that think tanks and study centers are an instrument of normative world. They are situated in a certain context and operate in certain dynamics; therefore, they are at liberty to choose what role they can play in foreign relations of any country. The role could be many since think tank is such a flexible entity that it can wear many hats and can claim itself anything. Their diversity and the ease to operate in any given environment is surely their strength but, at the same time, it is a big hurdle for those who wish to categorize them in a certain type. Although it is hard to typify them in one neat definition, those think tanks that orient their work and activities towards foreign policy they are called foreign policy think tanks. Focus of this study is such think tanks. It takes a detailed account of foreign policy think tanks in Pakistan that are focused on Pak-China relations. Established recently, this study considers Pak-China study centers as think tanks because their work and conduct fall within the scope of a think tank. However, at the same time, this study considers them somewhat different entities than a typical regular think tank because some of them also working as study centers in literal terms. This thesis concluded that ideas influence policies when the principled or causal beliefs they embody provide roadmaps that increase actor’s clarity about goals or ends-means relationships, when they affect outcomes of strategic situations in which there is no unique equilibrium, and when they become embedded in political institutions.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Social Sciences

Department International Relations

Language English

Publication Date 2021-08-23

Subject International Relations

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