Robert Brier

Poland's Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Brier examines how human rights emerged as the dominant political language of our time. By showing how Polish dissidents were entangled in international debates on human rights and political resistance, he demonstrates how human rights became a contested source of legitimacy.

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Produktdetails

• Human Rights in History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781108460491
• ISBN-10: 1108460496
• Artikelnr.: 66874921

Autorenporträt

Robert Brier is a historian focusing on the intersection of international relations and intellectual history in the late twentieth century. He was Senior Researcher at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw from 2008-2015 and taught International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2015-2018.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Rise of Dissent in Poland
2. Dissent and the Politics of Human Rights
3. 'The Principle of Non-Interference as Laid Down in the Helsinki Final Act': the Polish crisis, the Cold War, and Human Rights
4. The End of the Ideological Age: Human Rights and Ostpolitik
5. Solidarity, Human Rights, and Anti-Totalitarianism in France
6. The 'Bedrock of Human Rights': US Labor, Neoconservatism, and Human Rights
7. Letters from Prison: the Prisoner of Conscience and the Symbolic Politics of Human Rights
8. Lech Wä¿sa, the symbolism of the Nobel Peace Prize, and Global Human Rights Culture
9. General Pinochecki: Poland, Chile, and the Global Politics of Human Rights Culture
10. Human Rights and the End of the Cold War
Epilogue.