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THE UNITED STATES AND PAKISTAN 1947-2000
Disenchanted Allies
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by Dennis Kux
(Baltimore, Md. and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press,
and Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press,
2001)
470 pp, 26 illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index
cloth $55 (members' price $45)
Paperback $22.95 (members' price $19)
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Former Ambassador and Under Secretary of State Thomas R. Pickering:
"Dennis Kux's book offers a clear guide to the ever-changing fortunes of U.S.-Pakistan relations. The book is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand the complex U.S.-Pakistan relationship and the role of this troubled relationship in the region and the world beyond." |
From the moment Pakistan gained its independence in
1947, its relations with the United States have careened between intimate
partnership and enormous friction -- reflecting the ups and downs of global
and regional geopolitics and disparate national interests. Although the
Cold War is over, Pakistan retains strategic importance for Washington,
not least because of its nuclear standoff with India, its festering enmity
with India over Kashmir, its chronic political and economic instability,
the worrying rise of fundamentalism, and Islamabad's problematic links
with the Taliban. This book, drawing heavily on primary documentary sources
and interviews, is the first comprehensive account of this roller-coaster
relationship.
"This is the most comprehensive
and balanced survey of U.S.- Pakistan relations yet written and
is unlikely soon to be surpassed. . . . Kux's honest rendering of
the past will serve Americans and Pakistanis well as they grope
for a new and more stable relationship."
Dennis Kux is a retired State Department South Asia specialist who dealt
with India and Pakistan for more than two decades, serving in Pakistan
from 1957 to 1959 and 1969 to 1971. He was the U.S. ambassador to Côte
d'Ivoire from 1986 to 1989. Ambassador Kux worked on this book as a scholar-in-residence
at ADST and the Middle East Institute and as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars.
Stephen P. Cohen, Brookings Institution:
Other Reviews
- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars:
"In The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: Disenchanted Allies, Ambassador Kux has given us the companion volume to his earlier and unequaled history, India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991. Both are absorbing, at times wrenching, accounts of misunderstandings and miscalculations that bring us, at the end of the Cold War, to the unwelcome fact that the most dangerous nuclear standoff in the world is on the Indian subcontinent -- with the United States looking on, aghast and helpless. Learn why."
- Robert J. McMahon, University of Florida
"Dennis Kux's book possesses a wealth of new information, based partly on fresh research in published and archival sources, but based even more impressively on the more than 100 personal interviews he conducted with former diplomats and defense officials in both the United States and Pakistan."
- Robert Wirsing, University of South Carolina
"Kux's study is, to my knowledge, the first full-dress, comprehensive, and authoritative study of U.S.-Pakistan relations. Focused primarily on formal diplomacy between these two countries, it systematically chronicles the major events, deftly handles the primary issues, and sympathetically considers the key political and diplomatic figures on both sides."
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