The most important question about Pakistan’s arms exports may not be where the weapons go — but who gains power from selling them.
Pakistan’s expanding defence industry and military diplomacy are giving its armed forces new sources of international influence — and potentially greater financial autonomy from civilian institutions at home.
Using Pakistan’s military relationship with Sudan as a revealing case, Dr. Siegfried O. Wolf examines how arms exports, defence cooperation and military-to-military networks can become instruments not only of foreign policy, but of domestic political power.
For Europe, this raises a broader question: when engaging with strategically important partners, are we paying enough attention to who actually controls the instruments of foreign and security policy — and what that means for democratic accountability?
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