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Article: Kux, Dennis The United States and Pakistan 1947-2000: Disenchanted Allies. (book review)
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- Asian Affairs: An American Review
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- June 22, 2002
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Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 470 pp., $22.95, ISBN 0-8018-6572-7 Publication Date: July 2001
Formerly with the U.S. Department of State, Dennis Kux has a long association with South Asia. His new book can be read as a companion volume to his earlier work, India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991. The United States and Pakistan is a detailed examination of the U.S. relationship with Pakistan from the moment from the latter's independence in 1947 to its emergence as a nuclear power in 1998. The theme of the book, as its title suggests, is that the two countries came together early in the life of the Pakistani nation, developed ...