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Today It Is Widely Recognised That The 'long 1970s' Was A Decisive International Transition Period During Which Traditional, Collective-oriented Socio-economic Interest And Welfare Policies Were Increasingly Replaced By The More Individually And Neo-liberally Oriented Value Policies Of The Post-industrial Epoch. Seen From A Distance Of Three Decades, It Is Increasingly Clear That These Socio-economic And Socio-cultural Processes Also Found Their Expression At The Level Of National And International Political Power. The Contributors To This Volume Explore These Processes Of Political-cultural Realignment And Their Social Impetus In Western Europe And The Euro-atlantic Area In And Around The 1970s In The Context Of Three Agenda-setting Topics Of International History Of This Period: Human Rights, Including The Impact Of Decolonisation; East-west Détente In Europe; And Transnational Relations And Discourses. Going Beyond The So-called Americanisation Processes Of The Immediate Postwar Period, This Volume Reclaims Europe's Place--and Particularly That Of Smaller European Nations--in Contemporary Western History, Demonstrating Europe's Contribution To Transatlantic Transformation Processes In Political Culture, Discourse, And Power During This Period--provided By Publisher.