Daniel Laqua's recent monograph Activism across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe raises a number of pertinent issues for historians of human rights to reflect upon. This article takes the four analytical lenses highlighted by Laqua for assessing transnational activism and applies them to cases of human rights activism in the Cold War and post-Cold War era. In doing so, this article argues that Laqua's framework offers much scope for historians to approach the history of human rights activism with a more critical edge. It also highlights the challenge of retaining an analytical focus on an issue as emotive and complex as human rights, and how Laqua's lenses may offer a practical methodology to do this.

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跨境行动主义：人权视角

丹尼尔·拉夸 (Daniel Laqua) 最近的专着1870 年以来的跨境行动主义：欧洲内外的原因、运动和冲突提出了一些值得人权历史学家思考的相关问题。本文采用拉夸强调的评估跨国行动主义的四个分析视角，并将其应用于冷战和冷战后时代的人权行动主义案例。本文认为，拉夸的框架为历史学家提供了很大的空间，让他们能够以更批判的态度来研究人权活动的历史。它还强调了将分析重点放在像人权这样情绪化和复杂的问题上所面临的挑战，以及拉夸的镜头如何提供一种实用的方法来做到这一点。