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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

blood brothers, Nixon, Bangladesh, radical Islam, Asian subcontinent

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

History

Abstract

The research on the Indo-Pakistani war as conducted at the Nixon Presidential Materials project in Baltimore, Maryland yielded excellent fruits for groundbreaking research in the future. Given the relatively recent release of Nixon-era documents to the public, the conclusions to be gleaned from them have the potential to produce groundbreaking scholarship on this “hot spot” in world affairs. As journalists Michael Hirsh and Ron Moreau have argued, “no other country is arguably more dangerous than Pakistan.” However, the danger has long predated the Pakistan’s decision to engage in the Bush administration’s Global War on Terror. My research has focused on one of the more tumultuous periods in recent Pakistani history: the creation of Bangladesh and the ensuing Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. As my research shows, the United States failed to intervene economically or militarily in the East Pakistan, thus creating the vacuum of Western influence that allowed more extreme radical Islamist elements to take hold in both Pakistan’s and Bangladesh’s political structures.

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