The Human Rights Breakthrough of the 1970s - The European Community and International Relations

During the 1970s human rights took the front stage in international relations; fuelling political debates, social activism and a reconceptualising of both East-West and North-South relations. Nowhere was the debate on human rights more intense than in Western Europe, where human rights discourses intertwined the Cold War and the European Convention on Human Rights, the legacies of European empires, and the construction of national welfare systems. Over time, the European Community (EC) began incorporating human rights into its international activity, with the ambitious political will to prove that the Community was a global "civilian power." This book brings together the growing scholarship on human rights during the 1970s, the history of European integration and the study of Western European supranational cooperation. Examining the role of human rights in EC activities in Latin America, Africa, the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, seeks to verify whether a specifically European approach to human rights existed, and asks whether there was a distinctive ''European voice'' in the human rights surge of the 1970s.>

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• Authors: Sara Lorenzini, Umberto Tulli, Ilari Zamburlini
• Assisted by: Sara Lorenzini (Editor), Umberto Tulli (Editor), Ilaria Zamburlini (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781350210677
• ISBN: 978-1-350-21067-7
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History: specific events & topics, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, International Relations, History: specific events and topics, c 1970 to c 1979, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, c 1970 to c 1980