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The 'Long 1970s': Human Rights, East-West Détente and Transnational Relations

The 'Long 1970s': Human Rights, East-West Détente and Transnational Relations

Villaume, Poul
Mariager, Rasmus
Porsdam, Helle

Hardcover

General World HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1472459407
ISBN13: 9781472459404
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 20 2016
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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.

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