Book contents
- Poland’s Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights
- Human Rights in History
- Poland’s Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Geographical Regions
- Note on Cited Primary Documents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Rise of Dissent in Poland
- 2 Dissent and the Politics of Human Rights
- 3 The Principle of Noninterference as Laid Down in the Helsinki Final Act
- 4 The End of the Ideological Age
- 5 Solidarity, Human Rights, and Anti-Totalitarianism in France
- 6 The “Bedrock of Human Rights”
- 7 Letters from Prison
- 8 Lech Wałęsa, the Symbolism of the Nobel Peace Prize, and Global Human Rights Culture
- 9 General Pinochecki
- 10 Human Rights and the End of the Cold War
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - General Pinochecki
Poland, Chile, and the Global Politics of Human Rights Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2021
- Poland’s Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights
- Human Rights in History
- Poland’s Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Geographical Regions
- Note on Cited Primary Documents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Rise of Dissent in Poland
- 2 Dissent and the Politics of Human Rights
- 3 The Principle of Noninterference as Laid Down in the Helsinki Final Act
- 4 The End of the Ideological Age
- 5 Solidarity, Human Rights, and Anti-Totalitarianism in France
- 6 The “Bedrock of Human Rights”
- 7 Letters from Prison
- 8 Lech Wałęsa, the Symbolism of the Nobel Peace Prize, and Global Human Rights Culture
- 9 General Pinochecki
- 10 Human Rights and the End of the Cold War
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter analyzes a symbolic politics of 1980shuman rights discourses by focusing on the place Poland and Chile had in global debates on human rights. In particular, it shows how these two countries featured in three different debates: First, the chapter reconstructs debates at the UN Commission on Human Rights in 1982 to show how the Reagan administration tried to turn the situation in Poland, where martial law had been imposed in 1981, into a symbolic counterweight to Chile, a country that had come to encapsulate the human rights discourse of actors and movements critical of US policies in Latin America. Second, this chapter shows how Polish and Chilean activists themselves struck an alliance to increase the international salience of their causes and thus mobilize international support. Third, this chapter shows how these debates on human rights in Poland and Chile intersected with US debates about neoliberal economic policies.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021