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

ISBN-13: 9781108460491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Robert Brier

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… reading Robert Brier's book is useful for understanding not only the past but also the present.' Jan Olaszek, H-Soz-Kult

Spis treści

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 Wałęsa, 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.