Human Rights Breakthrough of the 1970s

Sara Lorenzini is Professor of Contemporary History and Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration at the University of Trento, Italy.Umberto Tulli is a Postdoctoral fellow in Contemporary History and Adjunct Professor at the University of Trento, ItalyIlaria Zamburlini is a fellow of the University of Udine, Italy, where she teaches human rights in Europe.

• Introduction: the place of human rights in European integration, Sara Lorenzini, Umberto Tulli, and Ilaria ZamburliniPart I: The European community and human rights violations in the world1. Knocking on Europe’s doors: Community Europe and human rights after dictatorial rule in Southern Europe, 1974-1977, Victor Fernandez Soriano 2. Introducing human rights within development cooperation policies: the European Community between the United States and the Soviet Union, Ilaria Zamburlini 3. A reluctant promoter: The EC, CSCE and human rights in East-West relations, Umberto Tulli4. EC member states’ stance on human rights issues: The perspective from the UN General Assembly, 1970-9, Lorenzo Ferrari Part II: Member States, supranational institutions, European parties5. The European Union of Christian Democrats and the controversy regarding the Spanish accession to the EC in the 1970s: the human rights problem, MariaLuisa Sergio 6. The Socialist Group of the European Parliament and human rights in the second half of the 1970s, Christian Salm7. An awkward parter?: Britain’s human rights policy and EC relations, 1977-9, David Grealy8. Between Restrictiveness and Humanitarianism. EC institutions and the asylum policies of the 1980s, Gaia Lott Part III: Other Europes9. Human rights NGOs in Western Europe and the intervention of the Council of Europe in the Nigerian Civil War, Oluchukwu Ignatus Onianwa 10. Beyond victims of communism?: Austria and the human rights question in the 1970s, Maximilian GrafPart IV: After the breakthrough: the European Union and human rights11. The Twelve and the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights, Elena Calandri 12. The European Union's Influence on the Dutch position in the United Nations Human Rights Commission, Peter Malcontent

The Human Rights Breakthrough of the 1970s is an impressive work which makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of human rights diplomacy, European integration, EC/EU foreign policy, and modern European identity.