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'We have to tread warily': East Pakistan, India and the pitfalls of foreign intervention in the Cold War.
- Source :
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Cold War History . Feb2023, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p23-44. 22p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This article examines the East Pakistan crisis of 1971 as a watershed moment in Cold War humanitarian politics. It argues that the absence of an effective international framework of multilateral foreign intervention or peacekeeping forced the key external actors to resort to covert forms of intervention, while publicly pledging adherence to non-interference in the domestic affairs of Pakistan. The article demonstrates that covert intervention by India, the United States and the United Nations not only undermined the credibility of the Cold War international system, but also fuelled the drift to the Indo-Pakistani war that ultimately ended the crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *INTERVENTION (International law)
*COLD War, 1945-1991
*PEACEKEEPING forces
*WAR
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14682745
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Cold War History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 162354865
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2022.2102607