The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 197s

Contents

C o n t e n t s 1. The Return of the Prodigal: The 1970s as a Turning Point in Human Rights History 1 Samuel Moyn 2. The dystopia of Postcolonial Catastrophe: self-determination, the Biafran War of secession, and the 1970s Human Rights moment 15 Lasse Heerten 3. The disenchantment of socialism: soviet dissidents, Human Rights, and the new global morality 33 Benjamin Nathans 4. dictatorship and dissent: Human Rights in east germany in the 1970s 49 Ned Richardson-Little 5. Whose utopia? gender, ideology, and Human Rights at the 1975 World Congress of Women in east Berlin 68 Celia Donert 6. “magic Words”: The advent of Transnational Human Rights activism in latin america’s southern Cone in the long 1970s 88 Patrick William Kelly 7. shifting sites of argentine advocacy and the shape of 1970s Human Rights debates 107 Lynsay Skiba vi Contents 8. oasis in the desert? america’s Human Rights Rediscovery 125 Daniel Sargent 9. Human Rights and the u.s. Republican Party in the late 1970s 146 Carl J. Bon Tempo 10. The Polish opposition, the Crisis of the gierek era, and the Helsinki Process 166 Gunter Dehnert 11. “Human Rights are like Coca-Cola”: Contested Human Rights discourses in suharto’s indonesia, 1968–1980 186 Brad Simpson 12. Why south africa? The Politics of anti-apartheid activism in Britain in the long 1970s 204 Simon Stevens 13. The Rebirth of Politics from the spirit of morality: explaining the Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s 226 Jan Eckel notes 261 list of Contributors 327 index 329 acknowledgments 339 The Breakthrough This page intentionally left blank ...