Saudi-Pak Defense Partnership: Past and Present

Yıl 2017, Cilt: 9 Sayı: 2, 44 - 65, 01.12.2017

Muhammed Yaseen Naseem Sayyad Sadri Alibablu

Öz

An independent academic exercise has been organized to find out the intensity of defense partnership between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia KSA and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan through critically observing the discourse in the press releases of Inter Services Public Relations ISPR & Pakistan Air Force and reviewing some quite relevant literature from key reports, journals and newspaper articles for just filling the gap of information. This study tries to answer the question of whether the Saudi-Pak defense partnership is sustainable or not. It explains that civil and military leadership of KSA and Pakistan are more cohesive and mostly adopt a unified stance on the issue of bilateral defense partnership. This partnership has been estimated from the historical defense related institutional relationship; recent visits of the civil-military leadership, their points of discussions and commitments; multidimensional joint ventures & defense exercises army, navy and air force ; and from significant recent developments for strengthening the defense of both countries. It concludes that the top leaderships of both countries are agreed to go to any extent at the time of security crisis either in Pakistan or in KSA

Anahtar Kelimeler

KSA, Pakistan, Defense Partnership, Civil-Military Leadership, commitments.

Suudi Arabistan-Pakistan Savunma Ortaklığı: Geçmiş ve Günümüz

Öz

Bilgi boşluğunu doldurmak için Hizmetler Arası Halkla İlişkiler ISPR & Pakistan Hava Kuvvetleri basın bildirilerindeki söylemi eleştirel olarak gözlemleyerek ve kilit raporlardan, dergilerden ve gazete makalelerinden ilgili literatürü gözden geçirerek Suudi Arabistan Krallığı SAK ile Pakistan İslam Cumhuriyeti arasındaki savunma ortaklığının ne derece yoğun olduğunu anlamak maksadıyla bağımsız bir akademik çalışma organize edilmiştir. Bu çalışma, Suudi Arabistan-Pakistan savunma ortaklığının sürdürülebilir olup olmadığı sorusunu cevaplamaya çalışmaktadır. SAK ve Pakistan’ın sivil ve askeri liderliklerinin daha tutarlı olduğunu ve ikili savunma ortaklığı konusunda çoğunlukla müşterek duruş sergilediklerini gözler önüne sermektedir. Bu ortaklık tarihi savunma ile ilgili kurumsal ilişki; sivil askeri liderliğin son ziyaretleri, tartışma ve taahhüt noktaları; çok boyutlu ortak girişimler ve savunma tatbikatları ordu, deniz ve hava kuvvetleri ; ve her iki ülkenin savunmasını güçlendirmek için önemli gelişmeler üzerinden değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışma, her iki ülkenin üst düzey liderliklerinin Pakistan veya SAK’ta ortaya çıkabilecek bir güvenlik krizi esnasında her şeye başvurmaya kararlı oldukları sonucuna varmaktadır

Anahtar Kelimeler

SAK, Pakistan, Savunma Ortaklığı, Sivil-Askeri Liderlik, taahhütler

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