Foreign Policy Agendas and Participation in Locally Led Informal Security Coalitions

Pakistan, Sudan, and the Yemen War Coalition

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6457925
AutoresRory Miller (0000-0001-5709-3277), Sarah Cardaun, Sarah K Cardaun (Helmut Schmidt University)
Año2025
Volumen78
Número2
Páginas153-174
Fecha de publicación2025-07-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Middle East Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0026-3141 • E-ISSN: 1940-3461
EditorialThe Middle East Journal (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3751/78.23.12
OpenAlexW4411868319
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas9

Informal multinational security coalitions are established frameworks for temporary military missions. There is an extensive scholarship on the motives of partners in coalitions led by the United States, but such choices by states in locally led coalitions in the Middle East have barely been studied. This article examines the decisions of Pakistan and Sudan to participate in the coalition in Yemen led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, established in March 2015. The findings demonstrate that Pakistan’s and Sudan’s decisions reflected national foreign policy priorities over and above any other factors

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Foreign policy · Political science · Politics · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East