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Introduction In the late 1960s, the strong society’s optimistic idea of ever-increasing security in industrial society clashed with new images of reality, which focused on extensive social problems in the midst of social democratic society. In 1967, the husband and wife team of Gunnar and Maj Inghe published Den ofärdiga välfärden ( Unfinished
in the overall context of intra-state peacekeeping, but also further develop an important element of our argument, namely that the two periods under scrutiny (i.e. the early 1960s and the early 1990s) constituted critical thresholds in intra-state peacekeeping, each with its own particular normative resolution as to the UN’s objectives and authority. We will demonstrate how the interests and normative
Introduction The late 1960s signified a break with the post-war optimism regarding growth. The post-war view of growth as a promise for social development was replaced by understandings of growth as a threat to social progress, and as a source of new problems in a changing, uncertain period of societal development. Politics in the 1960s and 1970s were marked by the
productive investment seemed to have been replaced by the identification of social policy as a cost and a drain on resources. The book is about this ideological turnaround and how the notion of the productive role of social policy has changed in the SAP’s economic and social policy discourse in the post-war period, from its ideology of the ‘strong society’ in the 1950s and 1960s, to the attempts to articulate
T HE NORMATIVE CONNECTION between the UN and intra-state conflicts is not static. It is a matter of continuous redefinition and reinterpretation as can be usefully observed in the context of intra-state peacekeeping environments. One of our contentions in this study is that, in the space of just three decades – that is, from the early 1960s to the early 1990s – the
transition of many American voluntary agencies into development-oriented humanitarian NGOs during the 1950s and 1960s, questions remain with regard to CARE’s particular development. Given its rapid shift from a start-up into a large-scale humanitarian non-profit organization, there were many difficulties and teething troubles to be overcome. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the agency was repeatedly shaken by
reformism, to the extent that it is possible to speak of a crisis of social democracy in the periods when this relationship has been questioned and put under pressure from alternative articulations from both left and right. The central narrative of this book has been a historical account of two such periods of critique and crisis, when this relationship is questioned and reforged. The late 1960s was a crisis for
productivism of the post-war period and give social goals a value of their own. The rearticulation of growth as a social force for welfare was social democracy’s response to the critique of the late 1960s, and can be seen as an effort to recreate a harmonious framing between ‘growth’ and ‘security’, that once again set them as compatible goals. The ideology that emerged in the 1970s was, however, a
exactly was the extent and scope of the authority assigned to the UN in this, the ‘boldest’ intra-state peacekeeping mission of the 1960s? It is primarily to these questions that this chapter will now turn its attention. Historical background Colonised by Belgium in the 1880s, 5 the Congo’s great attraction was its mineral wealth. These
Introduction Olof Palme’s 1970s idea of a third way in a new and more social concept of growth gave way to a new idea of a third way in the early 1980s. This 1980s third way was a different utopia. It was deeply concerned with growth, but less so with its social content. It made a decisive break with the late 1960s radicalism. However, it also broke with a lot of social