Kux, Dennis
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.
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,...