Robert J. McMahon (born 1949) is an American historian of the foreign relations of the United States and a scholar of the Cold War.
[2] 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.