The 'long 1970s' : human rights, East-West détente, and transnational relations
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The 'long 1970s' : human rights, East-West détente, and transnational relations
Routledge, 2017
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"First issued in paperback 2017"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-297) and index
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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 detente 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.
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Part One: Human Rights and Cultural Rights Part Two: Detente: From Above and Below Part Three: Transnational Diplomacy, Alternative Europe, Media Discourses
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