From Turkey to Rhodesia: an Assortment of Outcasts

Abstract

The diversity of outcast countries that feature briefly in this background chapter reminds us that deviant status and the accompanying efforts at punishment through isolation were not confined to the Cold War era. From much earlier states of differing ideological persuasions and power had been condemned to this status. Their transgressions likewise extended over a wide spectrum. Considerable variation is also evident in the extent of ostracism they had endured. Truly universal deviants – shunned by the entire world community – were few and far between.