Shifting Strategies: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Pakistan Under Obama and Biden Administrations

Abstract

This paper is a comparative take a look at of the U.S. overseas coverage in Pakistan all through the Obama (2009-2017) and Biden (2021-2023) presidencies and offers an in-intensity evaluation of the drastic modifications in strategic outlook, navy activity, monetary guide, and worldwide affairs. The Obama management caused a coverage that placed counterterrorism, nearby balance, and mass monetary resource withinside the centre of U.S. coverage, including the Kerry-Lugar-Berman Act and heavy drone operations withinside the Pakistani tribal population. Conversely, the Biden management represented a shift to a bigger geopolitical perspective, specifically the Indo-Pacific, however with dwindled emphasis on army and counterterrorism sports in Pakistan. Selective monetary tactics to global family members, humanitarian initiatives, and weather international relations had been distinguished functions of the overseas coverage of Biden, who in assessment engaged much less in any lively navy involvement. This essay will examine the results of those modifications on U.S-Pak family members and the way the shifts in international priorities have converted the strategic application of Pakistan to U.S. overseas coverage. The evaluation suggests a shift in the direction of a greater transactional courting, primarily based totally extra on nearby opposition and selective engagement, with important local balance implications inside South Asia.