Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
"Freedom Will Be Defended"
Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Routledge Advances in American History
ISBN: 978-1-032-38743-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book examines the history of human rights in US security imaginaries and provides a theoretical framework to explore the common-sense assumptions around US foreign relations and the universality of the human.
The inability, or unwillingness, to provide fundamental freedoms is a central feature in the US presentation of postcolonial spaces as “failed” and “rogue” states: as nodes of disorder and instability that are then subject to increasingly pre-emptive pacification. While largely focused on contemporary history from the post-WWII Universal Declaration to drone war, the author critically engages with longer, entwined histories such as Westphalian mythology, humanitarian intervention, and imperial aerial policing. Bridging history, law, politics, culture, and war, the theoretical bounding of the regime of truth offers a fresh reading for those knowledgeable on human rights and/as security policy.
This volume will be of value to students and scholars of American Studies/history, critical International Relations (IR), human rights history, and those interested in conceptions of liberty and US foreign relations.
Zielgruppe
Academic, General, and Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
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Weitere Infos & Material
1. Writing Rights: Natural, Man, Human 2. Securing the Individual: “A Call for US leadership” 3. Security as Freedom: The (New) American Century 4. The Burdens of (Liberal) Imperialism 5. Development and Democracy: Three Worlds and the Outlaws 6. (In)Dispensable Nation(s) 7. Unable or Unwilling 8. Humanising War: Normalising Security 9. Counterinsurgency: Military Operations Other Than War 10. Aviation as Pacification
