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  • Print publication year: 2010
  • Online publication date: September 2010

22 - The Cold War in the longue durée: global migration, public health, and population control

Summary
This chapter discusses the Cold War's impact on history over the longue duree only by situating it in a more global perspective, one that takes account of changes in populations and the environment, and not just national governments and international borders. The ideology of liberalism would appear to preclude policies to harness people's bodies to serve state interests, or deny individuals' ability to move about with the same freedom as capital, goods, and ideas. But the "leader of the free world" was actually a pioneer in employing migration and sterilization to control the composition of its population. Public-health campaigns had varied outcomes, but their history cannot be reduced to a Cold War story, any more than the history of global migration can. In the course of the 1960s, the US government began giving ever stronger support to population control, pressing other wealthy nations to join in supplying contraceptives while pushing poor countries to accept them.
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The Cambridge History of the Cold War
  • Online ISBN: 9781139056106
  • Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521837217
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