ABSTRACT
Until the discovery of substantial reserves of natural gas and petroleum nearly a decade ago, Bangladesh featured very little in the policy discourses of global powers and held very little import for the United States in particular. Although the defining characteristic of Bangladesh's post-1975 foreign policy has been the sharp departure from pro-Soviet alignment towards pro-US alignment, no US President had visited the country until President Bill Clinton's visit in 2000. Clinton's brief stop in Dhaka during his South Asia tour was the first, and to date the only, presidential visit to the country. Such neglect demonstrates Bangladesh's apparent lack of geo-strategic relevance for the global powers.
