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The article studies the evolution of the relationship between communism, feminism, and internationalism and the Women's International Democratic Federation (FDIF) in Central Europe. It is argued that international organizations for women communists played a decisive role in the internationalization of women's rights as human rights at the United Nations (UN) in the 1970s. Topics of discussion include post-World War II fascism and women's rights, transnationalism, the creation of the International Women's Year in 1975 by the UN, and the limits of internationalism.

The article focuses on Syria's Armed Forces and foreign relations, from the country's independence from French rule in 1946 to the government of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in 1970. The effects of the First Arab-Israel War from 1947 to 1949 in Syria and the first coup d'État led by Syrian Army Chief-of-Staff Husni al-Za'im in 1949 are mentioned. Topics include Syria's relations with the U.S., the political influence of the Syrian Arab socialist party Baath Party, the Cold War context, and Major-General Salah Jadid who led the coup d'État in February 1966. The conflict between Syria and Israel on April 7, 1967 and the Israel-Arab War of 1967 in Syria are also discussed.

The author looks at the central role France played in the signing of the Final Act, or the Helsinki Accords (Helsinki, Finland), in 1975 during the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) from 1972-1975. Foreign, French, and CSCE archives are examined. The act was signed in an effort to improve relations between Western countries and the Communist States of Central and Eastern Europe. CSCE as a subject in U.S., British, and German historiography is mentioned. The origins of the conference, the engagement of French President Charles de Gaulle and his concept of paneuropeanism, French-Soviet relations, and the new parameters of the detente, or the easing of tensions among nations, in Europe are discussed.

The article focuses on the evolving discipline of contemporary history and examines how historians adapt to this evolution in Europe. The author compares historical conditions during the 1970s and in the 2000s which were conducive to the emergence of a shared engagement toward a European historiographical movement, referred to as contemporary history in the article. Topics include the rehabilitation of the political history movement during the 1980s, the history of the Cold War period and opposing communist and anti-communist historiographies, and French historians fighting to gain access to public archives.

An abstract of the article "La Résistance en accusation: les procès d'anciens FFI et FTP en France dans les années d'après-guerre" by Fabrice Grenard is presented.