Lessons from Pakistan: how to win friends, influence allies, then squander it all

2021-06-02 1

It is widely assumed that the pursuit of “strategic autonomy” is a unique attribute of Indian foreign policy. The fact, however, is that all countries, big or small, try and maximise their room for manoeuvre within the constraints that they find themselves in. Prof C Raja Mohan tells Aakash Joshi what was Pakistan’s case in strategic autonomy.