Pakistan's relations with the United States have careened between intimate alliance partnership and enormous friction. 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.

"An ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book."

Foreword / Edward M. Rowell and Kenneth N. Rogers, Jr. --The United States and the Pakistan movement -- Truman: friends, not allies -- Eisenhower I: America's most allied ally in Asia -- Eisenhower II: Ike likes Ayub -- Kennedy: alliance troubles -- Johnson: the alliance unravels -- Nixon: the tilt -- Ford: enter the nuclear issue -- Carter: the low point -- Reagan: partners again -- Bush: the partnership collapses -- Clinton: living with a nuclear Pakistan -- An unstable partnership.