Wednesday, 4 December 2019

European Utopias from below: 1989 and the role of popular movements East and West

an article by Mary Kaldor published in Eurozine

Dialogue between western European peace movements and human rights groups in the East made a crucial contribution to overcoming the division of the continent and laid the foundations for a global language of transnational civil society and humanitarianism.

The argument that ’89 was all about ‘catching up’ with the West overlooks this history.

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