  Perturbative QCD in the small Bjorken $x$ limit can be formulated as an
effective theory known as the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) formalism. The CGC
formalism takes into account the dynamics of large gluon densities at small $x$
and has been successfully applied to Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and
particle production in high energy hadronic and nuclear collisions in the small
$x$ kinematic region. The effective degrees of of freedom in CGC are Wilson
lines which enter in the effective quark (and gluon) propagators and re-sum
multiple soft scatterings from the small $x$ gluon field of the target. It is
however known that the CGC effective theory breaks down when one probes the
moderately large $x$ (high $p_t$) kinematics where collinear factorization and
DGLAP evolution of parton distribution functions should be the right framework.
Here we propose a general framework which may allow one to eventually unify the
two approaches and to calculate pQCD cross sections in both small and large
Bjorken $x$ regions. We take the first step towards this goal by deriving an
expression for the quark propagator in a background field which includes
scatterings from both small and large $x$ modes of the gluon field of the
target. We describe how this quark propagator can be used to calculate QCD
structure functions $F_2$ and $F_L$ at all $x$ and thus generalize the dipole
model of DIS. We outline this approach can also be used to extend the so-called
hybrid approach to particle production in the forward rapidity region of high
energy hadronic and nuclear collisions to all $x$ and $p_t$ regions and
speculate on how one may apply the same techniques to extend the
McLerran-Venugopalan effective action used in high energy heavy ion collisions
to include high $p_t$ physics.
