Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0209540

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0209540

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Ascending the Cross: Soviet Dissidents and the Universalisation of Human Rights. This project will study the contribution of persecuted dissidents to a diplomatic revolution. It will investigate how apparently powerless Soviet intellectuals like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn used their moral authority to transform detente and challenge the notion that human rights was an internal affair of sovereign states. My hypothesis is that this challenge helped to provoke the 1970s human rights boom, which scholarship traditionally attributes to the inspirational role of President Carter and Western NGOs. By illuminating the role of non-Western citizens, this research calls into question prevailing assumptions about the specificially Western sources of the emerging international human rights order.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 31-12-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $214,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | History: European | International Relations | Human Rights

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

International relations not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Historical Studies | History: European | Human Rights | International Relations | International relations not elsewhere classified | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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