The 'Long 1970s'

Human Rights, East-West Détente and Transnational Relations

• Author(s): Poul Villaume, Rasmus Mariager, Helle Porsdam,
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Pages: 314
• ISBN_10: 1315612240
  ISBN_13: 9781315612249
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / General , History / World , History / Modern / General , History / Modern / 20th Century / General , Law / International , Philosophy / Political , Political Science / General , Political Science / International Relations / General , Political Science / Human Rights , Political Science / World / General , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... 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.