How Pakistan Negotiates With the United States: Riding the Roller Coaster

How Pakistan Negotiates with the United States analyzes the themes, techniques, and styles that have characterized Pakistani negotiations with American civilian and military officials since Pakistan's independence.

Teresita Schaffer specialized in South Asia and international economics during her thirty-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service. She served in Islamabad and New Delhi (1974-77 and 1977-79), as deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia (1989 92), as U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka (1992 95), and as director of the Foreign Service Institute (1995 97). She created and directed the South Asia program at CSIS from 1998-2010.

Howard Schaffer is a professor at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. During his thirty-six year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, he served as ambassador to Bangladesh (1984 87), political counselor at American embassies in India (1977 79) and Pakistan (1974 77), and he was twice deputy assistant secretary of state responsible for South Asian affairs.