摘要：Nations strive hard to protect their interests which sometime lead them into competition of imposing wills on each other. The 21st century power competition is no different and nations equipped with strong elements of power are striving to adopt all available means to compete with their challengers and competitors. This involves strategies that coin both soft and hard power. Though the use of soft power is more objective oriented it also requires a tangible support of hard power to deter the competitor. Even the 21st Century warfare is more hybrid and non-kinetic in its nature but again efforts supplemented through icons of war ensures reliability of power game. Among many soft power projections, diplomacy is at the top, which is now bridging the soft and hard powers, giving birth to diplomatic maneuverability. The sophistication of military hardware and technological incorporation into the strategic equation by powerful states provides an indication towards evolving diplomatic maneuverability. In other words, today’s diplomatic relations are trending to accommodate hard power equation into the matrix of strategic relations. To minimize the scope of diplomatic maneuverability and keep it very strategic in nature the concept of antimissile shield provides an interesting definition to the whole dilemma. Today, the antimissile shields have received an interesting value in the overall strategic relations among the powerful to feed the security anxiety of vulnerable nations. This article sheds light on the evolving diplomatic maneuverability which accommodates one of the most threatening technological devices in the shape of the antimissile defense shield. How the global antimissile shield is impacting negatively on the stability of peace and security is the question to investigate. To do so, this article would first chart out the bidders of antimissile defense shields along with their aspirations to keep it going and later evaluate how such an arrangement is causing instability to the greater audience..
