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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Scott, Erik, 1978- author.     Subjects     Defectors -- Soviet Union.     Cold War.     Asylum, Right of -- History.     Soviet Union -- Foreign relations.     Soviet Union -- Boundaries.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Scott, Erik, 1978- author.       by title:      Defectors : how the ...         MARC Display

Defectors : how the illicit flight of Soviet citizens built the borders of the Cold War world / Erik R. Scott. by Scott, Erik, 1978- author. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] Subjects Defectors -- Soviet Union.   Cold War.   Asylum, Right of -- History.   Soviet Union -- Foreign relations.   Soviet Union -- Boundaries. ISBN:  9780197546871 (hardcover) : 0197546870 (hardcover) 9780197546901 Description:  xi, 310 pages : maps ; 25 cm Contents:  From displacement to defection -- Between intelligence and counterintelligence -- Socialist borders in a global age -- Soviets abroad -- International waters -- Cold War airspaces -- After defection. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Defectors fleeing the Soviet Union seized the world's attention during the Cold War. Their stories were told in sensational news coverage and dramatized in spy novels and films. In contrast to other refugees, they were pursued by the states they left even as they were sought by the United States and other Western governments eager to claim them. Taking part in a risky game that played out across the globe, defectors sought to transcend the limitations of the Cold War world. The book follows their treacherous journeys and looks at how their unauthorized flight gave shape to a globalized world. It charts a global struggle over defectors that unfolded in a crowded courtroom in Paris, among rival intelligence agencies operating in the shadows of an occupied Europe, in the forbidden border zones of the USSR, in the disputed straits of the South China Sea, on a hijacked plane 10,000 feet in the air, and around the walls of Soviet embassies. In doing so, the book reveals a Cold War world whose borders were far less stable than the notion of an "Iron Curtain" suggests. Surprisingly, the competition for defectors paved the way for collusion between the superpowers, who found common interest in regulating the unruly spaces through which defectors moved. Disputes over defectors mapped out the contours of modern state sovereignty in previously contested places, and defection's ideological framework hardened borders by reinforcing the view that asylum should only be granted to migrants with clear political claims. Although defection all but disappeared after the Cold War, it helped forge an international refugee system whose legacy and limitations remain with us to this day"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 325.21094 Sc Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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