PROF Scott Newton sn21@soas.ac.uk
Professor
Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space
Newton, Scott
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Contributors
PROF Matthew Craven mc7@soas.ac.uk
Editor
Sundhya Pahuja
Editor
Gerry Simpson
Editor
Anna Saunders
Editor
Abstract
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.
Citation
Newton, S. (2019). Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space. In M. Craven, S. Pahuja, G. Simpson, & A. Saunders (Eds.), International Law and the Cold War (117-136). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615525.006
Publication Date | Dec 31, 2019 |
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Deposit Date | Nov 26, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 10, 2020 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 117-136 |
Book Title | International Law and the Cold War |
ISBN | 9781108499187 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615525.006 |
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