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- International Law and the Cold War
- International Law and the Cold War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus
- Part I The Anti-linear Cold War
- Part II The Generative/Productive Cold War
- 4 Accounting for the ENMOD Convention: Cold War Influences on the Origins and Development of the 1976 Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques
- 5 Nuclear Weapons Law and the Cold War and Post–Cold War Worlds: a Story of Co-production
- 6 Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space
- 7 Shadowboxing: The Data Shadows of Cold War International Law
- 8 Contesting the Right to Leave in International Law: the Berlin Wall, the Third World Brain Drain and the Politics of Emigration in the 1960s
- 9 Bridging Ideologies: Julian Huxley, Détente, and the Emergence of International Environmental Law
- 10 More than a ‘Parlour Game’: International Law in Australian Public Debate, 1965–1966
- 11 Environmental Justice, the Cold War and US Human Rights Exceptionalism
- 12 The Cold War and Its Impact on Soviet Legal Doctrine
- 13 Forced Labour
- 14 Rupture and Continuity: North–South Struggles over Debt and Economic Co-operation at the End of the Cold War
- 15 The Cold War History of the Landmines Convention
- Part III The Parochial/Plural Cold War
- References to Cold War Volume
- Index
6 - Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space
from Part II - The Generative/Productive Cold War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2019
- International Law and the Cold War
- International Law and the Cold War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus
- Part I The Anti-linear Cold War
- Part II The Generative/Productive Cold War
- 4 Accounting for the ENMOD Convention: Cold War Influences on the Origins and Development of the 1976 Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques
- 5 Nuclear Weapons Law and the Cold War and Post–Cold War Worlds: a Story of Co-production
- 6 Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space
- 7 Shadowboxing: The Data Shadows of Cold War International Law
- 8 Contesting the Right to Leave in International Law: the Berlin Wall, the Third World Brain Drain and the Politics of Emigration in the 1960s
- 9 Bridging Ideologies: Julian Huxley, Détente, and the Emergence of International Environmental Law
- 10 More than a ‘Parlour Game’: International Law in Australian Public Debate, 1965–1966
- 11 Environmental Justice, the Cold War and US Human Rights Exceptionalism
- 12 The Cold War and Its Impact on Soviet Legal Doctrine
- 13 Forced Labour
- 14 Rupture and Continuity: North–South Struggles over Debt and Economic Co-operation at the End of the Cold War
- 15 The Cold War History of the Landmines Convention
- Part III The Parochial/Plural Cold War
- References to Cold War Volume
- Index
Summary
The Cold War brought into the world and the world of inter-state relations a novel kind of space, Division Space – really, a novel mode of spatialisation altogether. The double Germanies, the double Vietnams, the double Koreas, the double Berlins, and the double Chinas were split along the Cold War fault line itself. But that line was not merely a geological feature or a surveyor’s or boundary commission’s line of demarcation, not a 38th parallel or River Elbe. They were only the most spectacular instances of a new space of division of unprecedented scope and penetration, simultaneously jurisdictional (legal), geographic, demographic, political, cultural, economic and ultimately civilisational. The scale of division was adjustable and fractal: city, state, continent, globe.
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- International Law and the Cold War , pp. 117 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019