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Human Rights in Europe during the Cold War (Hardcover)
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Human Rights in Europe during the Cold War (Hardcover)
Series: Cold War History
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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
to participate in politics. However, the world was awakened by the
atrocities of the Second World War and the idea that every person
should have certain perpetual and inalienable rights was set out in
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) from 1948, which
contained an enumeration of international human rights standards.
Adopting an interpretative framework which pulls together universal
ideas, values and principles of human rights, Human Rights in
Europe during the Cold War demonstrates how conflicting interests
collided when the exact meaning of human rights was established. It
also discusses various approaches to the idea of imposing respect
for human rights in countries where they were systematically
violated and assesses the outcome of international accords on human
rights, in particular the 1975 Helsinki Final Act. In conclusion,
this volume proposes that human rights functioned as moral support
to the opposition in repressive regimes and that this was
subsequently used as a tool to further system changes. Based on new
archival research, this book will be of much interest to students
of Cold War studies, human rights, European history, international
law and IR in general.
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