Ullakh P. US policy in South Asia (1965-1972)

The object of the research: Evolution of US foreign policy in South Asia from 1965 to 1972. The purpose of the research: is to study the US foreign policy in South Asia and its importance for the emergence and development of the region's countries. Methods: deduction, induction, analysis, synthesis, logical, comparative, method of analogy; historical-comparative, historical-genetic, historical-typological, historical-system, problem-chronological. Scientific novelty: Using a broad documentary basis, it has been proved that US foreign policy during this period was of no Pro-Pakistani or Pro-Indian nature and oriented only on the realization of its own interests, although it was more beneficial for India; provided an alternative interpretation of US actions during the 1971 conflict instead of the American researcher J. Anderson's proposed discourse on Washington's pro-Pakistani politics, established in historical literature; researched, how the US has perceived the beginning and events of the 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pakistani wars; CIA analytic reports for the US presidents, which were declassified in 2015-2016, had been introduced into the scientific circulation. The practical significance lies in the possibility of developing comprehensive research on international relations of the second half of the twentieth century, using materials for further scientific development of the topic of US foreign policy in South Asia, the study of the history of India and Pakistan, etc.; factual findings and conclusions can be used in the preparation of special courses on the history of international relations, conflict sciences, political science, contemporary history. Sphere of use: higher educational institutions.