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  • The Breakthrough

    Human Rights in the 1970s

    Edited by Jan Eckel, Samuel Moyn ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki Accords were signed, incorporating a "third basket" of human rights principles; and the Carter ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Ambivalence of Good

    Human Rights in International Politics since the 1940s

    by Jan Eckel ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Modern European History
    The Ambivalence of Good examines the genesis and evolution of international human rights politics since the 1940s. Focusing on key developments such as the shaping of the UN human rights system, decolonization, the rise of Amnesty International, the campaigns against the Pinochet dictatorship, the moral politics of Western governments, or dissidence in Eastern Europe, the book traces how human ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • The Breakthrough

    Human Rights in the 197s

    Edited by Jan Eckel, Samuel Moyn ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki Accords were signed, incorporating a "third basket" of human rights principles; and the Carter ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Last Utopia

    Human Rights in History

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled ... Read more

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  • Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World

    Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany

    by Marcia C. Schenck ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.This book draws on more than 260 life history ... Read more

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  • The Global 1970s

    Radicalism, Reform, and Crisis

    by Duco Hellema ...
    Series series Decades in Global History
    No other decade evokes such contradictory images as the 1970s: reform and emancipation on the one hand, crisis and malaise on the other. In The Global 1970s: Radicalism, Reform, and Crisis, Duco Hellema portrays the 1970s as a period of global transition.Across the world, the early and mid-1970s were still years of political mobilization with everything seemingly an object of public controversy ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Democratic Extremism in Theory and Practice

    All Power to the People

    by Paul Lucardie ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    Democracy and extremism are usually considered as opposites. We assume that our system (in the UK, the USA, the Netherlands etc.) is democratic, and extremists try to destroy our system and introduce some kind of dictatorship, if not chaos and anarchy. Yet in many cases, the extremists seem sincere in their attempt to construct a more democratic polity. Hence, they can be called democrats and yet ... Read more

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  • Holocaust and Genocide Denial

    A Contextual Perspective

    Edited by Paul Behrens, Olaf Jensen, Nicholas Terry ...
    This book provides a detailed analysis of one of the most prominent and widespread international phenomena to which criminal justice systems has been applied: the expression of revisionist views relating to mass atrocities and the outright denial of their existence. Denial poses challenges to more than one academic discipline: to historians, the gradual disappearance of the generation of ... Read more

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  • A Thorn in the Side of European Elites

    The New Euroscepticism

    by Florian Hartleb ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    The European project has recently reached a critical point, where a discussion on the fundamental objectives of the European Union has entered public debate. There are considerable concerns about a new Euroscepticism arising in response to recent developments, especially the Eurozone crisis, and a general feeling of malaise towards the European project from both national elites and ordinary ... Read more

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  • Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ...
    Series series Human Rights in History
    Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this history, the ... Read more

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  • Old Ghosts in New Sheets

    European Populist Parties and Foreign Policy

    by Angelos-Stylianos Chryssogelos ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    This research paper analyses the foreign policy positions of five populist parties of the Right and Left in Western Europe. It focuses on foreign policy, an often ignored dimension of their ideas. It aims to fill a hole in policy debates by showing that European populism poses a coherent threat to mainstream politics, that foreign policy can be instrumental to the challenge mounted by populist ... Read more

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