RT Book
T1 Brutality in an age of human rights: activism and counterinsurgency at the end of the British Empire
A1 Drohan, Brian 1983-
LA English
PP Ithaca London
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/889695547
AB "In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials' choices concerning counterinsurgency methods have long been deeply influenced or even redirected by the work of human rights activists. To reveal how that influence was manifested by military policies and practices, Drohan examines three British counterinsurgency campaigns--Cyprus (1955-1959), Aden (1963-1967), and the peak of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland (1969-1976). This book is enriched by Drohan's use of a newly available collection of 1.2 million colonial-era files, International Committee of the Red Cross files, the extensive Troubles collection at Linen Hall Library in Belfast, and many other sources. Drohan argues that when faced with human rights activism, British officials sought to evade, discredit, and deflect public criticism of their actions to avoid drawing attention to brutal counterinsurgency practices such as the use of torture during interrogation"--
AB "In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials' choices concerning counterinsurgency methods have long been deeply influenced or even redirected by the work of human rights activists. To reveal how that influence was manifested by military policies and practices, Drohan examines three British counterinsurgency campaigns--Cyprus (1955-1959), Aden (1963-1967), and the peak of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland (1969-1976). This book is enriched by Drohan's use of a newly available collection of 1.2 million colonial-era files, International Committee of the Red Cross files, the extensive Troubles collection at Linen Hall Library in Belfast, and many other sources. Drohan argues that when faced with human rights activism, British officials sought to evade, discredit, and deflect public criticism of their actions to avoid drawing attention to brutal counterinsurgency practices such as the use of torture during interrogation"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN U241
SN 9781501714658
K1 Counterinsurgency : Cyprus
K1 Counterinsurgency : Yemen (Republic) : Aden
K1 Counterinsurgency : Northern Ireland
K1 Human Rights : Cyprus
K1 Human Rights : Yemen (Republic) : Aden
K1 Human Rights : Northern Ireland
K1 Postcolonialism : Great Britain
K1 Yemen (Arab Republic) : History : 1962-1970
K1 Northern Ireland : History : 1968-1998
K1 Cyprus : History : War for Union with Greece, 1955-1959
K1 Großbritannien : Commonwealth : Zypern : Jemen : Nordirland : Entkolonialisierung : Aufstand : Bekämpfung : Menschenrecht : Geschichte 1955-1976