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The Helsinki Effect

International Norms, Human Rights, and the Demise of Communism

Daniel C. Thomas

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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Politikwissenschaft

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Human rights norms do matter. Those established by the Helsinki Final Act contributed directly to the demise of communism in the former East bloc, contends Daniel Thomas. This book counters those skeptics who doubt that such international norms substantially affect domestic political change, while explaining why, when, and how they matter most. Thomas argues that the Final Act, signed in 1975, transformed the agenda of East-West relations and provided a common platform around which opposition forces could mobilize. Without downplaying other factors, Thomas shows that the norms established at Helsinki undermined the viability of one-party Communist rule and thereby contributed significantly to the largely peaceful and democratic changes of 1989, as well as the end of the Cold War. Drawing on both governmental and nongovernmental sources, he offers a powerful Constructivist alternative to Realist theory's failure to anticipate or explain these crucial events.


This study will fundamentally influence ongoing debates about the politics of international institutions, the socialization of states, the spread of democracy, and, not least, about the balance of factors that felled the Iron Curtain. It casts new light on Solidarity, Charter 77, and other democratic movements in Eastern Europe, the sources of Gorbachev's reforms, the evolution of the European Union, U.S. foreign policy, and East-West relations in the final decades of the Cold War. The Helsinki Effect will be essential reading for scholars and students of international relations, international law, European politics, human rights, and social movements.

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Foray, Freedom of speech, Cold War II, Jackson–Vanik amendment, Western media, Henry Kissinger, Soviet Union, Workers' Defence Committee, Roy Medvedev, Samizdat, Goulash Communism, Human Rights Watch, Activism, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Andrei Amalrik, George Ball (diplomat), European Political Cooperation, Jimmy Carter, Smithsonian Institution, Socialism with a human face, The Anarchical Society, American Enterprise Institute, Imperialism, Ostpolitik, Chronicle of Current Events, Threat of force (public international law), Politique, Popular sovereignty, John Mearsheimer, Eastern Bloc, Theory of International Politics, Non-interventionism, Robert Keohane, Czechoslovakia, Liberalism, State socialism, Dissident, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Foreign policy, Moscow Helsinki Group, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, NATO, Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Counter-revolutionary, Cold War (1985–91), Brezhnev Doctrine, János Kádár, Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev, Adam Michnik, Peaceful coexistence, Ratification, Yuri Orlov, Eastern Europe, International relations, Soviet Empire, Soviet dissidents, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Military dictatorship, State actor, Helsinki Accords, Disarmament, European Defence Community, Prague Spring, Communism, Charter 77, Alexander Dubcek, International human rights law, Warsaw Pact, Leonid Brezhnev