Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War

Sarah B. Snyder is a Lecturer in International History at University College London. She has published a number of scholarly articles in journals such as Cold War History, Diplomacy and Statecraft, the Journal of Transatlantic Studies and the Journal of American Studies, as well as multiple book chapters. Dr Snyder specializes in transnational, international and diplomatic history.

• Introduction; 1. Bridging the East-West divide: the Helsinki Final Act negotiations; 2. 'A sort of lifeline': the Helsinki Commission; 3. Even in a Yakutian village: Helsinki monitoring in Moscow and beyond; 4. Follow-up at Belgrade: the United States transforms the Helsinki process; 5. Helsinki watch, the IHF, and the transnational campaign for human rights in Eastern Europe; 6. Human rights in East-West diplomacy; 7. 'A debate in the fox den about raising chickens': the Moscow conference proposal; 8. 'Perhaps without you, our revolution would not be'; Conclusion.

'… innovative conceptually and methodologically and makes an extremely important contribution to the study of international affairs during the 1970s and 1980s, including the ending of the Cold War.' Akira Iriye, Harvard University