The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity by Pilkington, Richard

The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780774861984)

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The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity by Pilkington, Richard

The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity

$35.95
The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity by Pilkington, Richard

The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity

$35.95
Format: Paperback
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An insightful look at why the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom failed to intervene in the Bangladesh crisis.

In 1971, the western powers did nothing as Pakistani authorities perpetrated mass atrocities against the Bengali people in a failed attempt to thwart their independence. The West and the Birth of Bangladesh explores the initial reactions and heated debates between officials in Washington, Ottawa, and London during the first months of the crisis. The United States favored appeasement and Canada did not want to endanger bilateral ties with Islamabad. Only the United Kingdom, eventually, under extreme public pressure, showed a greater willingness to coerce Islamabad into ending its actions. In this insightful book, Richard Pilkington reveals how shortsighted officials chose national interests over humanitarian justice in the face of harrowing atrocities.


Author: Richard Pilkington
ISBN-10: 0774861983
ISBN-13: 9780774861984
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2022
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
By Richard Pilkington
By Richard Pilkington
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Richard Pilkington is an independent scholar of genocide studies and US foreign relations and has taught at both the University of Toronto and Concordia University.

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