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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
9 - Bridging Ideologies: Julian Huxley, Détente, and the Emergence of International Environmental Law
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
In a verse reflecting the (colonial) attitudes of his time, Kipling once wrote, ‘Oh, East is East, and West is West; and never the twain shall meet’.Although written in 1889, the underlying sentiment might equally describe the bipolar geopolitics prevalent at the height of the Cold War. Indeed, by the time of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to suppress intended liberal reforms, to many, the ideological chasm between the Eastern and Western blocs appeared insurmountable. Notwithstanding these divisions, key political leaders (particularly in Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union) sought strategies to promote greater stability and predictability in international affairs. To this end, they pursued more cooperative East–West relations, recognising that collaboration on environmental issues might help to defuse Cold War tensions. The apparently non-political nature, and seeming objectivity, of environmental issues contributed to their becoming, by 1975, a central pillar of détente between the East and the West.
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- International Law and the Cold War , pp. 189 - 213Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019