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Would You Believe...The Helsinki Accords Changed the World? de Peter L. W. Osnos

Would You Believe...The Helsinki Accords Changed the World?

Autor Peter L. W. Osnos
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 mai 2023
The fascinating saga of how an underestimated diplomatic accord in 1975 changed history in the next half-century: highlighting human rights and security in Europe and leading to the creation of Human Rights Watch, one of the world's leading NGOs.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781735996899
ISBN-10: 1735996890
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: No
Dimensiuni: 236 x 162 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: PLATFORM BOOKS LLC

Notă biografică

Peter L.W.Osnos was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) India on October 13, 1943. He arrived in Los Angeles by ship with his parents and brother in February 1944. He was raised in New York and attended high school in Connecticut, college at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachisetts and graduate school at Columbia University., He worked as an assistant to the journalist I.F.Stone and joined The Washington Post in 1966. At the Post, Osnos served as a correspondent in Vietnam, the Soviet Union and London. He was also the national and foreign editor. In 1984, Osnos joined Random House as a senior editor and later associate publisher as well as publisher of the Times Books imprint. In 1997, he founded PublicAffairs in partnership with the Perseus Books Group and served as publisher and editor at large until 2020. He was the founder of the Caravan Project on the development of digital and audio publishing, author of a weekly media column called Platform which was hosted by The Century Foundation and appeared on TheAtlantic.com and in 2020, launched Platform Books LLC with his wife, Susan Sherer Osnos. The first book was "An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen" released in May, 2021. It is Osnos' memoir, distributed by Two Rivers/Ingram. He is also the editor of ?George Soros: A Life in Full? (Platform Books/Harvard Business Review Press, 2022). He is the father of two children, Evan Osnos and Katherine Sanford, and grandfather of five. He and his wife now live in New York City and Lakeside, Michigan.

Cuprins

Prologue
Chapter One: Origins
Chapter Two: Dissidents Take the Helsinki Accords at Their Word
Chapter Three: Belgrade
Chapter Four: Helsinki Watch and the Origins of Human Rights Watch
Chapter Five: Investigations and Advocacy
Chapter Six: In the Field; Learning, Doing, Acting.
Chapter Seven: Human Rights Watch: What It Has Become
Chapter Eight: The Heirs of Helsinki: in Washington and Vienna.
Coda
Appendices: Texts From the Accords
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index