Bringing the Transnational In: Writing Human Rights into the International History of the Cold War

Snyder, Sarah B.

doi:10.1080/09592296.2013.762885

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“…Transnational action is in general significantly helped by the presence – either emerging, threatened or reduced by surveillance and repression – of such local defenders of the cause, with whom communication and ties can be maintained from overseas (see also Burgerman, 2001; Evangelista, 1999; Keck and Sikking, 1998; Popa, 2010; Snyder, 2013). Mathon would maintain these contacts to support the CM’s efforts.…”

Section: Scientists and Human Rights Advocatesmentioning

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“…The Committee proclaimed that it was acting in defence of human rights (Iriye et al, 2012; Keck and Sikking, 1998; Moyn, 2010; Quataert, 2009; Risse et al, 1999; Snyder, 2011, among others), alongside other non-governmental organisations (Evangelista, 1999; Risse-Kappen, 1995; Snyder, 2013) that supported it during the late Cold War. Moreover, it acted during a period when the defenders of this cause were becoming more professionalised, specialised and bureaucratic.…”

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Internationalized science and human rights activism during the late Cold War: The French Committee of Mathematicians

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This article examines the ties between an internationalised science and transnational activism, in particular for causes considered universal, such as defending human rights, during the late Cold War. It focuses on a scientific network that supported mathematicians persecuted for their political views by both left- and right-wing undemocratic regimes. The Committee of Mathematicians was founded in 1974 and was active for a decade, built incrementally as a transnational advocacy network located in several Western countries. Focussing primarily on the Committee’s French component, this article investigates the social and organisational underpinnings of its transnational action and defence of universal principles. It examines the modes of action and how they were shaped by scientists’ professional and even disciplinary affiliations. These focal points allow an interrogation of the place the committee occupied within the space of human rights activism. The article aims to contribute to a historical sociology of the ties between science and politics and of the transnational trends that strained national frameworks, while moving away from an approach focussed solely on political macrotrends that fuelled the Cold War.

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Section: Scientists and Human Rights Advocatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%