Yana Zolotaryova
Postgraduate student of Department of Modern and Contemporary History of Foreign Countries, historical faculty, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
UDС 94(73)(111)1975/85
DOI http://doi.org/10.17721/2524-048X.2015.02.177-187
This article analyzes the US role in the Commission on Security and Cooperation (CSCE) in Europe and how its foreign policy strategy promoted human rights in the Soviet Union. It will pay particular attention to how human rights promotion fit into a larger approach to transforming Superpower relations. This article focuses also on the U.S. delegation to the Madrid Meeting of CSCE and credits the success of the Helsinki Accord to U.S. adroit negotiation strategies. US had every intention of making the issue of human rights an important element of Cold War competition with Soviet Union.
Keywords
Human rights, Commission on Security and Cooperation (CSCE) in Europe, The Belgrade Meeting (1977 -78), The Madrid Meeting (1980 – 83), The Helsinki process, US-Soviet relations, US Foreign Policy 1970 – 80, Cold War.
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