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From Selma to Moscow

How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy

By: Sarah B. Snyder

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From Selma to Moscow

How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy

By: Sarah B. Snyder

The 1960s marked a transformation of human rights activism in the United States. At a time of increased concern for the rights of their fellow citizens—civil and political rights, as well as the social and economic rights that Great Society programs sought to secure—many Americans saw inconsistencies between domestic and foreign policy and advocated for a new approach. The activism that arose from the upheavals of the 1960s fundamentally altered U.S. foreign policy—yet previous accounts have often overlooked its crucial role. In From Selma to Moscow, Sarah B. Snyder traces the influence of human rights activists and advances a new interpretation of U.S. foreign policy in the “long 1960s.” She shows how transnational connections and social movements spurred American activism that achieved legislation that curbed military and economic assistance to repressive governments, created institutions to monitor human rights around the world, and enshrined human rights in U.S. foreign policy making for years to come. Snyder analyzes how Americans responded to repression in the Soviet Union, racial discrimination in Southern Rhodesia, authoritarianism in South Korea, and coups in Greece and Chile. By highlighting the importance of nonstate and lower-level actors, Snyder shows how this activism established the networks and tactics critical to the institutionalization of human rights. A major work of international and transnational history, From Selma to Moscow reshapes our understanding of the role of human rights activism in transforming U.S. foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s and highlights timely lessons for those seeking to promote a policy agenda resisted by the White House.

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From Selma to Moscow

How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy

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Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War

A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network

By: Sarah B. Snyder

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Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War

A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network

By: Sarah B. Snyder

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.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139498924

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Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War

A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network

By: Sarah B. Snyder

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A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network

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From Selma to Moscow

From Selma to Moscow

From Selma to Moscow

From Selma to Moscow

Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War

Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War

Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War

Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War

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