Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018): A Journal of Strategic Studies - Winter 2018
Book Reviews

Rabia Akhtar, The Blind Eye: US Non-Proliferation Policy Towards Pakistan from Ford to Clinton

Saima Aman Sial
Senior Research Officer at the Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS)
Bio
Published December 31, 2018
How to Cite
Saima Aman Sial. (2018). Rabia Akhtar, The Blind Eye: US Non-Proliferation Policy Towards Pakistan from Ford to Clinton. CISS Insight Journal, 6(2), 109 - 113. Retrieved from https://journal.ciss.org.pk/index.php/ciss-insight/article/view/25

Abstract

The subject of Pak-US relations is an area where the literature is mostly burdened with conflicting narratives on both sides rather than a matter of fact analysis of historical events. Rabia Akhtar’s book, The Blind Eye: US Nonproliferation Policy Towards Pakistan from Ford to Clinton makes an attempt to set the record straight. This book is a timely addition to the literature which provides a new prism to look at Pakistan’s pursuit of the bomb during times of changing US nonproliferation goalposts. In its critique on the US non-proliferation policies, the book concludes that Pakistan’s popular narrative needs a reset with respect to the objectives and successes of the US non-proliferation policies towards Pakistan.