1st Edition

Human Rights in Europe during the Cold War

Edited By Rasmus Mariager, Karl Molin, Kjersti Brathagen Copyright 2014
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides an overview of the establishment, dispersion and effects of human rights in Europe during the Cold War. The struggle for human rights did not begin at the end of the Second World War. For centuries, political associations, religious societies and individuals had been fighting for political freedom, religious tolerance, freedom of expression, freedom of thought and the right... Read more

1. Cold War and Human Rights, Rasmus Mariager and Karl Molin  PART 1: INCEPTION  2. Competition or Complement to Universal Human Rights? Perceptions of and positions on a European Convention for Human Rights, 1949–1952, Kjersti Brathagen  3. The British in Strasbourg: Negogiating the European Convention on Human Rights, Anne Deighton  4. Rights of the Refugee During the Cold War: A case study of Sweden 1945–1954, Cecilia Notini-Burch  5. "Universality Should Govern the Small World of Today": The Cold War and UN Human Rights Diplomacy, 1960–1968, Steven L. B. Jensen  PART II: DISPERSION  6. The Helsinki Final Act, The Second Stage of Ostpolitik, and Human Rights in Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland, Robert Brier  7. Sweden, Ostpolitik and the Collective and Individual Rights of European Citizens, 1969-1975, Aryo Makko  8. Propoganda Tools and Idealistic Goals: Britain and the Cold War Politics of Human Rights in the CSCE,1972–1973, Kai Hebel  PART III: EFFECTS  9. Human-Rights Demagoguery Hostile to Detente: The German Democratic Republic and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1975–1989, Douglas Selvage  10. A Trap and a Chance: Basket III, Dissents and State Authorities in Communist Poland, Wanda Jarząbek  11. Counter Culture, Hegemony and Human Rights: Rights and Resistance under the Cold War, Ben Dorfman

Biography

Rasmus Mariager is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Karl Molin is Professor of History at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Kjersti Brathagen is a Lecturer at Telemark University College, Norway.