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Author: Alexis Heraclides Publisher: Burns & Oates ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 296
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The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe is said to be the most sophisticated intergovernmental institution dealing with wider Europe. This volume documents the latest advances in its development as well as its successes of the past, highlighting the 1992 "Helsinki-II" meeting.
Author: Alexis Heraclides Publisher: Burns & Oates ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 296
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The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe is said to be the most sophisticated intergovernmental institution dealing with wider Europe. This volume documents the latest advances in its development as well as its successes of the past, highlighting the 1992 "Helsinki-II" meeting.
Author: Tiina Kinnunen Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004208941 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 597
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Drawing on innovative scholarship on Finland in World War II, this volume offers a comprehensive narrative of politics and combat, well-argued analyses of the ideological, social and cultural aspects of a society at war, and novel interpretations of the memory of war.
Author: Daniel C. Thomas Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691187223 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 321
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Human rights norms do matter. Those established by the Helsinki Final Act contributed directly to the demise of communism in the former East bloc, contends Daniel Thomas. This book counters those skeptics who doubt that such international norms substantially affect domestic political change, while explaining why, when, and how they matter most. Thomas argues that the Final Act, signed in 1975, transformed the agenda of East-West relations and provided a common platform around which opposition forces could mobilize. Without downplaying other factors, Thomas shows that the norms established at Helsinki undermined the viability of one-party Communist rule and thereby contributed significantly to the largely peaceful and democratic changes of 1989, as well as the end of the Cold War. Drawing on both governmental and nongovernmental sources, he offers a powerful Constructivist alternative to Realist theory's failure to anticipate or explain these crucial events. This study will fundamentally influence ongoing debates about the politics of international institutions, the socialization of states, the spread of democracy, and, not least, about the balance of factors that felled the Iron Curtain. It casts new light on Solidarity, Charter 77, and other democratic movements in Eastern Europe, the sources of Gorbachev's reforms, the evolution of the European Union, U.S. foreign policy, and East-West relations in the final decades of the Cold War. The Helsinki Effect will be essential reading for scholars and students of international relations, international law, European politics, human rights, and social movements.
Author: Sarah B. Snyder Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139498924 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 305
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Two of the most pressing questions facing international historians today are how and why the Cold War ended. Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War explores how, in the aftermath of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, a transnational network of activists committed to human rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe made the topic a central element in East-West diplomacy. As a result, human rights eventually became an important element of Cold War diplomacy and a central component of détente. Sarah B. Snyder demonstrates how this network influenced both Western and Eastern governments to pursue policies that fostered the rise of organized dissent in Eastern Europe, freedom of movement for East Germans and improved human rights practices in the Soviet Union - all factors in the end of the Cold War.
Author: Ville Kivimäki Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand ISBN: 9522228575 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 154
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In most European countries, the horrific legacy of 1939-1945 has made it difficult to remember the war with much glory. Despite the Anglo-American memory narrative of saving democracy from totalitarianism and the Soviet epic of the Great Patriotic War, the fundamental experience of war for many Europeans was that of immense personal losses and often meaningless hardships. The volume at hand focuses on these histories between the victors: on the cases of Hungary, Estonia, Poland, Austria, Finland, and Germany and on the respective, often gendered experiences of defeat. The chapters underline the asynchronous transition to peace in individual experiences, when compared to the smoother timelines of national and international historiographies. Instead of a linear chronology, both personal and collective histories tend to return back to the moments of violence and loss, thus forming continuous cycles of remembrance and forgetting. Several of the contributors also pay attention to the constructed and contested nature of national histories in these cycles. The role of these "in-between" countries - and even more their peoples', multifaceted experiences - adds to the widening comparative European history of the aftermath, thereby challenging the conventional dichotomies and periodisations in national historiographies. In the aftermath of the 70th anniversary of 1945, it is still, unfortunately, too early to regard the post-war period as mere history; the memory politics and rhetoric of the Second World War and its aftermath are still being used and abused to serve contemporary power politics in Europe.
Author: Michael Cotey Morgan Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691210462 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 414
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The definitive account of the historic diplomatic agreement that provided a blueprint for ending the Cold War The Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five European and North American leaders at a summit in Finland in the summer of 1975, the document presented a vision for peace based on common principles and cooperation across the Iron Curtain. The Final Act is the first in-depth history of the diplomatic saga that produced this important agreement. This gripping book explains the Final Act's emergence from the parallel crises of the Soviet bloc and the West during the 1960s and the conflicting strategies that animated the negotiations. Drawing on research in eight countries and multiple languages, The Final Act shows how Helsinki provided a blueprint for ending the Cold War and building a new international order.
Author: Alexis Heraclides
Author: Arvo Mägi
Author: Alexis Heraclides
Author: Tiina Kinnunen
Author: Arie Bloed
Author: Artur Mägi
Author: Daniel C. Thomas
Author: Sarah B. Snyder
Author: S. J. Roth
Author: Ville Kivimäki
Author: Michael Cotey Morgan