Human Rights and Sovereign Standards in Us Security - Freedom Will Be Defended

This book examines the history of human rights in US security imaginaries, and provides a a theoretical framework to explore the common-sense assumptions around US foreign relations and the universality of the human.

List of contents

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

About the author

Sarah Earnshaw is a postdoctoral researcher in American Studies and Cultural Studies currently based at the DFG research group 'Practicing Place', KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her research interests include: spatialities of social and cultural conflict; class composition and labour mobilisation; solidarity and resistance; critical security; and conceptions of freedom and autonomy.

Summary

This book examines the history of human rights in US security imaginaries, and provides a a theoretical framework to explore the common-sense assumptions around US foreign relations and the universality of the human.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Earnshaw
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032387437
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3238743-7
• No. of pages: 338
• Series: Routledge Advances in American History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / United States / General, Colonialism & imperialism, United States of America, USA, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, Human rights, civil rights, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Human Rights;US Security;History