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Helsinki, Human Rights, and the Gorbachev Style

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2012

William Korey
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Abstract

Human rights is one of three issues addressed by the Helsinki Accord, alongside security and trade matters. In the mid-seventies the accord was greeted with enthusiasm by the Soviet Union, which saw it as a means to reduce the U.S. presence in Europe. The United States, which played a limited role in drafting the accord, feared it might result in a betrayal of the various nationalities of Eastern Europe by its tacit acceptance of Soviet territorial arrangements. Over the next ten years the human rights section of the accord would become a central point of contention between the superpowers. Korey traces the evolution of the dispute and discusses Gorbachev's uneven attempts to improve the Soviet Union's recognition of human rights.

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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 1 , March 1987 , pp. 113 - 133
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1987

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