Umberto Tulli - A Precarious Equilibrium: Human Rights and Détente in Jimmy Carters Soviet Policy

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This book is a revised and updated version of the Italian Tra diritti umani e distensione. LAmministrazione Carter e il dissenso in Urss (FrancoAngeli, 2013). While the structure and the main ideas of the book remain fundamentally the same, sections have been rewritten, new archival research has been conducted and new books on Carters human rights policy, the CSCE process and the role of the United States during the 1970s have been consulted. No book is written in complete isolation and this one owes numerous debts to many scholars, colleagues and friends. Suggestions and support have always been abundant. I am extremely grateful to Sara Lorenzini and Mario Del Pero. Sara gave a fundamental encouragement to complete the book as well as generous advice. Mario has followed this research with an extraordinary intellectual acumen. I have been discussing these themes with many other scholars. Shortening as much as possible what otherwise would be an endless list, I would like to thank Federico Romero, Antonio Varsori, Piero Craveri, Silvio Pons, Fred Logevall, Jeremi Suri, Tatiana Yankelevich, Barbara Keys, Arne O. Westad, Piers Ludlow, Ilaria Zamburlini, Alessandra Bitumi, Dario Fazzi, Matteo Risari, Sabrina Paolucci, Lucrezia Cominelli, Flavia Tudini and Simone A. Bellezza. Finally, I would like to thank J. Simon Rofe, Gilles Scott-Smith and Jonathan de Peyer for the opportunity to publish with Manchester University Press and Helen Flitton of Newgen Publishing UK.