The United States and Pakistan 1947-2000; Disenchanted Allies
Washington, Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xix, [3], 470, [4] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Interviews and Oral Histories. Index. Some cover wear and half title page scuffed. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads For Nelson Ledsky--a dear old friend with much affection Dennis Kux June 2001. Dennis Kux July 2001. Dennis H. Kux (born August 11, 1931) is a diplomat and former Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire. He is the author of India and the United States: Estranged Democracies and The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: Disenchanted Allies. Kux served in Pakistan from 1957 to 1959 and again in Pakistan from 1969 to 1971. Nelson C. Ledsky was the director of the National Democratic Institute’s (NDI) Eurasia programs and a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service who retired with the rank of ambassador. Upon his retirement in 1992, Ambassador Ledsky joined NDI, where he took over the Institute’s nascent democratic development program in Eurasia and built it into an operation with activities and partners in more than a dozen countries. Prior to joining NDI, Ambassador Ledsky held a number of State Department posts, including U.S. negotiator in Germany and U.S. special coordinator for Cyprus, both with the rank of ambassador. He served in the White House from 1987 to 1989 as a special assistant to the president for national security affairs and held numerous State Department posts, deputy assistant secretary for congressional relations. He was also director of the State Department's Olympic Boycott Office in 1980 – 1981. "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 J. McMahon, University of Florida. "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."–Robert Wirsing, University of South Carolina. U.S.-Pakistan relations have been extraordinarily volatile, largely a function of the twists and turns of the Cold War. An intimate partnership prevailed in the Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan years, and friction during the Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter presidencies. Since the Cold War ended, the partnership has shriveled. The blunt talking to delivered by President Clinton to Pakistan's military dictator during Clinton's March 25, 2000, stopover in Pakistan highlighted U.S.-Pakistani differences. But the Clinton visit also underscored important U.S. interests in Pakistan. The first comprehensive account of this roller coaster relationship, this book is a companion volume to Kux's Estranged Democracies, recently called "the definitive history of Pakistani-American relations" in the New York Times. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Pakistan, Nuclear Program, Nuclear Weapons, Bhutto, Cold War, Afghanistan, India-Pakistan Relations, Inter-Service Intelligence, Taliban, Kashmir, Mohammad Ayub Khan, Jinnah, Military Aid, Sanctions, Zia ul-Haq
ISBN: 0801865727
[Book #85554]
Price: $175.00