Introduction Part I. Race, Security, and Cold War Humanitarianism: 1. Bipolar (dis)order Part II. The Global Humanitarian Regime at Arms: 2. Through a glass darkly 3. Mission impossible 4. Back to the future in Indochina 5. 'Solidarity is might!' Part III. Global Health, Development, and Labor Migration: 6. Know your body and build socialism 7. The time machine 'development' 8. Far away, so close 9. Things fall apart Conclusion.

Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime

Raymond Aron is widely regarded as the most important figure in the history of twentieth-century French liberalism. Yet his status within the history of liberal thought has been more often proclaimed than explained. Though he is frequently lauded as the inheritor of France's liberal tradition, Aron's formative influences were mostly non-French and often radically anti-liberal thinkers. This book explains how, why, and with what consequences he belatedly defined and aligned himself with a French liberal tradition. It also situates Aron within the larger histories of Cold War liberalism and decolonization, re-evaluating his contribution to debates over totalitarianism, the end of ideology, and the Algerian War. By exposing the enduring importance of Aron's student political engagements for the development of his thought, Iain Stewart challenges the prevailing view of Aron's early intellectual trajectory as a journey from naive socialist idealism to mature liberal realism, offering a new critical perspective on one of the twentieth century's most influential intellectuals.

Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century

Introduction: on the extreme right and transnational history 1. Nations and fascisms 2. Regenerating right-wing extremism 3. The impact of the Algerian years 4. 1968 and the response of political fronts 5. Culture after 1968 6. From the Euro right to a Euro leader Afterword: on the recent old Europe.

Transnational Neofascism in France and Italy

Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain: Introduction

The National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) was formed in the 1930s against a backdrop of fascism and 'popular front' movements. In this volatile political atmosphere, the aim of the NCCL was to ensure that civil liberties were a central component of political discourse. Chris Moores's new study shows how the NCCL - now Liberty - had to balance the interests of extremist allies with the desire to become a respectable force campaigning for human rights and civil liberties. From new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s to the formation of the Human Rights Act in 1998, this study traces the NCCL's development over the last eighty years. It enables us to observe shifts and continuities in forms of political mobilisation throughout the twentieth century, changes in discourse about extensions and retreats of freedoms, as well as the theoretical conceptualisation and practical protection of rights and liberties.

Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Britain

The Second World War brought suffering and trauma to the people of Europe on an unprecedented scale. While Europeans were not strangers to the harsh realities of international conflict, World War II galvanised a new range of destructive forces that shook the continent to its intellectual, psychological and material foundations. The Lasting War explores World War II as a common European trauma, focusing on key trans-national developments in post-war Britain, France and Germany. Acknowledging the importance of all experience, The Lasting War invites the reader to reflect on the role that trauma and expectations play in our relation with others and ourselves, abandoning the traditional categories of victor, perpetrator and victim in favour of a broader humanistic reading of wartime Europe. Ultimately, this is a book which attempts to encourage a fresh reading of the post-war years, offering new insights into civilian war experience and identity in twentieth century Europe.

The lasting war: society and identity in Britain, France and Germany after 1945

While the nature and speed of their transformation varies, urban landscapes undergo continuous change as spaces and artefacts are created, re-formulated or destroyed for practical as well as symbolic reasons. These transformations are guided by ideas about how the world should be, appear and respond to social, economic and political developments. Following Germany's reunification, Berlin's urban landscape was transformed by the need to accommodate different urban dynamics and understandings of the past and, following the subsequent move of the capital from Bonn, provide a representative landscape for the new Berlin Republic. This rekindled an old question: how should Germans build? This article argues that German architectural debate in a post-Cold War context is not only influenced by current developments in architecture and the need best to represent the liberal spirit of the new Germany, but is also strongly shaped by nineteenth-century German debates on identity and the strategies European social refo...

Monica Riera

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The lasting war: society and identity in Britain, France and Germany after 1945

How Should We Build? Architecture, History and the Post-Cold War Context in Germany

Dystopian Buenos Aires