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Human Rights and Sovereign Standards in US Security: “Freedom Will Be Defended” book cover

1st Edition

Human Rights and Sovereign Standards in US Security “Freedom Will Be Defended”

By Sarah Earnshaw Copyright 2025
346 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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