The "long 1970s": human rights, East-West detente and transnational relations

"Today it is widely recognised that the 'long 1970s' was a decisive international transition period during which traditional, collective-oriented socio-economic interest and welfare policies were increasingly replaced by the more individually and neo-liberally oriented value policies of the post-industrial epoch. Seen from a distance of three decades, it is increasingly clear that these socio-economic and socio-cultural processes also found their expression at the level of national and international political power. The contributors to this volume explore these processes of political-cultural realignment and their social impetus in Western Europe and the Euro-Atlantic area in and around the 1970s in the context of three agenda-setting topics of international history of this period: human rights, including the impact of decolonisation; East-West détente in Europe; and transnational relations and discourses. Going beyond the so-called Americanisation processes of the immediate postwar period, this volume reclaims Europe's place--and particularly that of smaller European nations--in contemporary Western history, demonstrating Europe's contribution to transatlantic transformation processes in political culture, discourse, and power during this period"--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction: The 'Long 1970s' -- Part I Human Rights -- 1 The Origins of the 1970s Global Human Rights Imagination -- 2 The Politics of Meaning: The Helsinki Final Act and the Legacy of UN Human Rights Diplomacy, 1960-75 -- 3 Confronting the Greek Military Junta: Scandinavian Joint Action under the European Commission on Human Rights, 1967-70 -- 4 Beyond the 'Helsinki Effect': East European Dissent and the Western Left in the 'Long 1970s'