Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire

by Brian Drohan

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501714651
• ISBN13: 9781501714658
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher