This process was largely frozen during the five decades of the Cold War. But human rights and the rule of law began to re-emerge as a theme of Western policy, especially in the wake of the Helsinki Conference on European Security and Cooperation and its use by the administration of US President Jimmy Carter, as well as by numerous non-governmental advocates protesting the treatment of Soviet dissidents.
这一进程在50年的冷战期间很大程度上被冻结了。但是人权和法治开始重新成为西方政策的一个主题，尤其是在赫尔辛基欧洲安全和合作会议之后以及卡特政府对它的运用，还有无数非政府的倡导者抗议苏联对其国内持不同政见者的处置。