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Socialist Modernist Worldmaking: Yugoslav Interventions in the International Humanitarian Debates in the 1970s

The Red Cross of Yugoslavia invited the International Red Cross Movement in the 1970s to reconsider its humanitarian principles and include perspectives from the countries belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement. The organization created an alternative humanitarian imaginary that partly challenged and partly reproduced the premises of the humanitarian sector in the West. This largely forgotten episode in the history of humanitarianism presented an attempt at worldmaking, not of a world free from the coloniality/modernity nexus, but of a socialist modernist world that was in many Continue reading → Continue reading →

Criminalizing Nazism and Neo-Fascism: East German Anti-Racial Discrimination Law, Socialist Legality, and Human Rights

The East German criminalisation of fascism was about more than atonement for Nazism. While its law makers certainly focussed on outlawing Nazism after the foundation of their state in 1949, they also opened up to international law and new human rights norms in the 1960s. This was not a mere diplomatic move to garner international support for the GDR’s existence as a sovereign state —especially in the Third World—but also became part of an attempt to build a new kind of international legal order grounded Continue reading → Continue reading →