Annotated Bibliography

Bashir, F., & Aman, S. (2021). US Security Assistance to Pakistan in Post 9/11 Period.FWU Journal of Social Sciences,15(2), 96-116.

Bashir and Aman (2021) explain that trust between the US and Pakistan is deeply tied to aid and security: Since the Obama Administration, the US has reduced the amount of aid and security it has provided to Pakistan, thus deteriorating whatever trust had appreciated under the Bush Administration post-9/11. Therefore, it is not surprising to find that intelligence suggests a military coup is underway. Based on what Bashir and Aman (2021) reveal, it should be recommended that the US get word to Pakistani leaders about restoring trust through aid and security initiatives that can help re-establish Pakistan-US relations. Bashir and Aman are experts in their fields; Bashir holds a PHD and teaches at the Islamia College Peshawar, while Aman is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. Both have a perspective that is understanding of the Middle Eastern mind and can be used to help orient the Western mind towards a proper assessment of the situation is it is in real terms. Indeed, Bashir and Aman apply a realist and neo-realist theoretical...