The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan
Noel H Pugach from the University of New Mexico, in Pacific Historical Review, calls the book an "excellent monograph" tracing the US-India-Pakistan relationship and a "solid and sound study". Pugach observes that McMahon has "exhaustively" researched primary sources from the United States and comments that the book will serve as a model reference point for studies of US-Third World relations during the Cold War.[3]
According to Kenton J. Clymer from the University of Texas in The American Historical Review it is a "superb" study of the relations between the US, India and Pakistan, which makes use of the best available archival documents. Clymer calls it an excellent work which will be a "definitive account" of American policy in South Asia during the Cold War.[4]
Richard Ned Lebow in The American Political Science Review calls it a "careful historical study"[5] while Rafique Kawthari notes in Current History that the professor of history, Robert McMahon, has relied mainly on recently declassified documents and calls the historical study timely.[6]Warren I. Cohen, from the University of Maryland's Department of History, states in Reviews in American History that Robert McMahon had already established himself as one of the best diplomatic historians and this "magnificent" book delivers "far more than its title promises". Cohen further comments that McMahon has written the best book on American relations with South Asia during the 1945-1965 period.[7]
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McMahon, Robert J. (1996). "The Illusion of Vulnerability: American Reassessments of the Soviet Threat, 1955–1956". The International History Review. 18 (3): 591–619. doi:10.1080/07075332.1996.9640755. JSTOR40107497.
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^Pugach, Noel (August 1995). "The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States. India. And Pakistan - Book Review". Pacific Historical Review. 64 (3): 463–464. doi:10.2307/3641032. JSTOR3641032.
^Clymer, Kenton (April 1995). "The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan - Book Review". The American Historical Review. 100 (2): 494–495. doi:10.2307/2169027. JSTOR2169027.
^Lebow, Richard Ned (September 1997). "The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan - Book Review". The American Political Science Review. 91 (3): 705–709. doi:10.2307/2952086. JSTOR2952086. S2CID146976549.
^Kawthari, Rafique (December 1994). "The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan - Book Review". Current History. 93 (587): 440.
^Cohen, Warren (December 1994). "The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan - Book Review". Reviews in American History. 22 (4): 705–710. doi:10.2307/2702823. JSTOR2702823.