Study Of The United States And Pakistan Cooperation Against Terrorism

Under the guiding principle of historical materialism, this paper aimed to retrospect and analyze how U.S.and Pakistan set up anti-terror alliance in the brand-new era of international terrorism and carry out their cooperating strategies. Based on some objective explanation of the historical clues on U.S.-Pak cooperation before 2001, this paper gave a relatively comprehensive picture of the development of U.S.-Pak anti-terror cooperation in depth and details. Particularly, this paper tried to analyze and sum up the driving force behide the alliance, various obstacles inside and outside the alliance, the national security strategies held by the two countries and effective measures to enhance the cooperation.This paper is divided into five chapters:The first chapter mainly explained several popular concepts and viewpoints relating to terrorism, international security cooperation and the forms of them. Then, this chapter introduced two famous political theories regarding to international anti-terror cooperation, namely neo-realism and neo-institutionalism.The seconde chapter laid the background against which U.S.-Pak anti-terror alliance was set up. Observing the history from 1947 to 2001, this part tried to discover the process during which the idea of cooperating with each other occurred to U.S and Pakistan,and the alliance was established and restricted by several accidents. In order to understande this period more clearly, the author divided this chapter into three parts according to important events, namely the first stage from 1947 to 1979, the seconde stage from 1979 to 1989, the third stage from 1989 to 2001. At the same time, this paper analyzed the charateristics of Pakistan's politics in everty stage, particulary the Islamanization trend and the influence brought about by it.The third and the fourth chapters made up the main part of this paper, with the former describing the cooperation process in the era of Musharraf and the later in the era of Zardari. In the third chapter, the author divided the chapter into two parts, namely cooperating processes before and after the Iraq war. Based on the explanation on the influence brought about by 9·11 terrorist attack on the international security order and collective security ideas, the chapter provided an in-depth exploration on why the two countries chosed to move close each other and respective roles took by the two countries in the global war on terror. Estimating the new security situation and the development of extremist network, the fouth chapter explained the adjustments made by the two countries in the terms of national security strategy and anti-terror measures. In conclusion, this chapter found that inheritance outweighed reforming in the anti-terror cooperation methods and ideas of the two countries.Based on the analysis of various obstacles inside and outside the anti-terror alliance, the fifth chapter provided relating methods to enhance the cooporation. For example, the author found the long history and deep-rooted social and culture base in Pakistan made the anti-terror task extremely difficult and complex. At the same time ,the realist guding diplomacy of U.S. still reduce the effect of anti-terror actions and triggered great anti-Amerian feeling around the Muslim communities. Therefore, the old cooperating modes needs to be adjusted and the idea of anti-terro cooperation catch up with the ever-changing situation faced by U.S. and Pakistan.