The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: Disenchanted Allies

Pakistan’s relations with the United States have careened between intimate alliance partnership and enormous friction. Post cold war Pakistan retains its strategic importance for Washington, not least because of its nuclear stand-off with India, festering hostilities with India over Kashmir, chronic political and economic instability, the rising of fundamentalism, and Islamabad’s links with the Taliban. This book, drawing heavily on primary documentary sources and interviews, is a comprehensive account of this roller-coaster relationship. Kux’s earlier book, India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991, has been acclaimed by the NEW YORK TIMES as ‘the definitive history of Indo-American relations’.