Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- Mehrunnisa Ali -- 2. United States and the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 -- Khurshid Hyder -- 3. The USSR and the Indo-Pakistan War, 1971 -- Zubeida Mustafa -- 4. China's Diplomacy during the Indo-Pakistan War, 1971 -- Mehrunnisa Ali ., -- 5. Britain and the Indo-Pakistan Conflict over -- East Pakistan -- Khalida Qureshi -- 6. The Simla and Tashkent Agreements -- Mehrunnisa Ali -- 7. Recent Trends in Pakistan's Policy towards the -- Middle East -- Zubeida Mustafa -- 8. Inching Together or a Mile Apart: India and -- Pakistan towards D6tente -- Nazir A. Mughal -- 9. An Overview of Pakistan's Foreign Policy -- in Recent Years -- ZubeidaMustafa -- 10. Pakistan and the Muslim World -- Col. Ghulam Sarwar -- 11. Pakistan-Iran Relations (1947-1979) -- Safia S. Mohammadally -- 12. Pakistan-Turkey Relations -- Naveed Ahmad -- 13. Pakistan's Geopolitical Environment and Security -- Mujtaba Razvi -- 14: Pakistan's Defense Policy -- Hasan-Askari Rizvi -- 15. Pakistan-United States Relations: An Appraisal -- M. Raziullah Azmi -- 16. Pakistan, India, and Regional Cooperation -- in South Asia -- Rashid Ahmad -Khan ::: -- 17. Pakistan Foreign Policy: Trends and Challenges -- of the Eighties -- Mehrunnisa Ali -- 18. Pakistan's Case Study for a Nuclear Security -- Guarantee -- Zafa Iqbal Cheema -- i 19. Pakistan and Western Europe (1975-86) -- Mehrunnisa Iqbal -- 20. Strategic and Military Dimensions in -- Pakistan-China Relations -- Mohammad Ahsen Chaudhri -- 21. Impact of the Afghan War on Pakistan -- Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema -- 22. The Superpowers and SAARC -- Hamid H. Kizilbash -- 23. Foreign Aid and Indebtedness in Pakistan -- Mohammad Uzair -- 24. Pak-Afghan Relations, 1958-1988 -- Anees Jillani -- 25. Prospects of Cooperation with Central Asian States -- S. Amjad Ali -- 26. Reorientation of Pakistan's Foreign Policy -- after the Cold War -- Marvi Memon -- 27. Advantages and Disadvantages for Pakistan -- in the Post-Cold War World -- Thom A. Travis -- 28. Central Asia in the New Eurasian Geopolitics: -- Implications for Pakistan and Russia -- Vyacheslav Ya Belokrenitsky -- 29. Nuclearization of South Asia and the Kashmir -- Dispute -- Farzana Shakoor -- List of Selected Articles -- Index.