The "Long 1970s" : human rights, East-West detente and transnational relations / edited by Poul Villaume, Rasmus Mariager and Helle Porsdam.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The "long 1970s" : new perspectives on an epoch-making decade / Poul Villaume, Rasmus Mariager, Helle Porsdam -- Part 1. Human rights -- The origins of the 1970s global human rights imagination / Mark Philip Bradley -- The politics of meaning : the Helsinki final act and the legacy of UN human rights diplomacy, 1960-1975 / Steven L.B. Jensen -- Confronting the Greek military junta : Scandinavian joint action under the European Commission on Human Rights, 1967-1970 / Kristine Kj�rsgaard -- Beyond the "Helsinki effect" : East European dissent and the Western Left in the "long 1970s" / Robert Brier -- Education, cultural rights and digital communication in the "long 1970s" / Helle Porsdam -- Part 2. East-West d�etente -- Changing the European "front system" : the case of Danish-Polish youth exchange, 1965-1985 / Marianne Rostgaard -- Anticipating European d�etente : Denmark, NATO and the struggle for an all-European security conference in the "long 1970s" / Poul Villaume -- Programmed for arms control? : Northern European social democratic security policy discussions, 1976-83 / Rasmus Mariager -- The twilight of the "short 20th century" : German peace activism and international politics in the "long 1970s" / Holger Nehring -- D�etente and the Soviet Bloc : from promoter to victim, 1975-1991 / Csaba B�ek�es -- Part 3. Transatlantic relations and discourses -- The emergence of the post-national subject : identity constructions in European alternative milieus, 1966-1983 / Detlef Siegfried -- Civil-military relations during d�etente : the people and defence network in the 1960s and 1970s / Giles Scott-Smith -- David Rockefeller in Beijing : China and the informal diplomacy of the Trilateral Commission in the "long 1970s" / Dino Knudsen -- Cold War discourses under pressure : Scandinavian public service TV and American Vietnam policies, 1968-75 / Palle Roslyng-Jensen -- The new Ostpolitik and "real existing socialism" : the image of the two Germanies in Scandinavian political discourse and culture after 1969 / Karl Christian Lammers.

"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 d�etente 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"--Provided by publisher.