Abbasi, Ommar Hayat
(2018)
Non-State Actors And Nation Building In Pakistan: An Islamic Perspective.
PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Abstract
Terrorism remains at the forefront of contemporary world stage. Conventionally, in the study of political science or international relations, the ‘use of force’ has legally been understood as to be associated with the state and illegal and criminal for non-state entity(s). Therefore, the omnipotent states use force against any non-state entities involved in violence and declare them terrorists regardless of the nature of their demands. Because of its peculiarity, Pakistan has gone through sweetand- sour kind of relationship with the violent non-state actors (NSAs). Pakistan’s choice to adhere to which type of paradigm domestically was greatly influenced by its foreign relations. In this quagmire, it could neither build the state nor the nation as was needed. Although in the contemporary state-centric international structure, states
remain the fountainhead of power.
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