Navigating Regional Trade Complexities Between Pakistan-Afghanistan and United Kingdom-Ireland: Role of International Law and Ethnicity in Shaping Shared Dilemmas Across Diverse Regions
Abstract/Description
Transforming into a highly integrated global trade system, International Trade is vital for nourishing countries’ economies. Trade has been a cornerstone of economic growth and global development. However, regional complexities in trade sometimes cause damage to countries' economic growth. This paper compares the complexities; shared ethnicities across borders, and legal dilemmas of bilateral trade between Pakistan-Afghanistan and the post-Brexit United Kingdom-Ireland. It sheds light on how these two pole-apart regions are victims of transit trade and how their economies suffer owing to their shared ethnic identities. Explaining the historical background, the role of international law, and relations among masses of both cases the study looks for mutual solutions. With the framework of ethnicity as compulsion and international law as an obligation the paper explores the central question; how shared ethnicity between countries, and international law bind states into a relation that hampers national and regional ties, how historical patterns and national compulsions compress nations not to formulate strong trade policies to check illegal transit trade in their respective regions; and finally how illegal trade adversely affects economies.
Keywords
Transit Trade, Pakistan, Afghanistan, UK-Ireland
Track
Management
Session Number/Theme
Management - Session II
Start Date/Time
13-6-2025 2:15 PM
End Date/Time
13-6-2025 3:55 PM
Location
MCS – 4 AMAN CED Building
Recommended Citation
Hashmi, S. R., & Farwa, U. (2025). Navigating Regional Trade Complexities Between Pakistan-Afghanistan and United Kingdom-Ireland: Role of International Law and Ethnicity in Shaping Shared Dilemmas Across Diverse Regions. IBA SBS 4th International Conference 2025. Retrieved from https://ir.iba.edu.pk/sbsic/2025/program/35
COinS
Navigating Regional Trade Complexities Between Pakistan-Afghanistan and United Kingdom-Ireland: Role of International Law and Ethnicity in Shaping Shared Dilemmas Across Diverse Regions
MCS – 4 AMAN CED Building
Transforming into a highly integrated global trade system, International Trade is vital for nourishing countries’ economies. Trade has been a cornerstone of economic growth and global development. However, regional complexities in trade sometimes cause damage to countries' economic growth. This paper compares the complexities; shared ethnicities across borders, and legal dilemmas of bilateral trade between Pakistan-Afghanistan and the post-Brexit United Kingdom-Ireland. It sheds light on how these two pole-apart regions are victims of transit trade and how their economies suffer owing to their shared ethnic identities. Explaining the historical background, the role of international law, and relations among masses of both cases the study looks for mutual solutions. With the framework of ethnicity as compulsion and international law as an obligation the paper explores the central question; how shared ethnicity between countries, and international law bind states into a relation that hampers national and regional ties, how historical patterns and national compulsions compress nations not to formulate strong trade policies to check illegal transit trade in their respective regions; and finally how illegal trade adversely affects economies.
