Abstract
The paper attempts to analyse the raison d’être of Pakistan's foreign policy, which principally has been to safeguard and sustain its sovereignty against Indian threats. Its bilateral relationship was basically constructed on tactical convergence in view of the peculiar global strategic structure. Pakistan had relied exclusively upon the dynamics of the Regional Security Complex, (RSC) without ostensibly understanding the intricacies of the transitory nature of the state‘s relationship with other states. The paper concludes that in a conflict of interests between states, the strong state with global outreach would prevail against the weaker state reliant on the RSC, without thoroughly understanding the dynamics of the nature of world politics and that, in essence, no country betrays, rather it is the shifting goal-posts of interests that compel them to realign their policies. When the interests of the United States conflicted with Pakistan in the mid-1970s, their relationship too, came under stress on a number of issues, including nuclear non-proliferation.

Dr. Zulfqar Khan. (2013) A Retrospective Perspective on Pakistan-United States Relations: 1947-1977, IPRI Journal, Volume-13, Issue-2.
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