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

Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire
ISBN-10
1501714678
ISBN-13
9781501714672
Category
History
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2018-01-15
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Brian Drohan

Description

Introduction : counterinsurgency and human rights in the post-1945 world -- A lawyers' war : emergency legislation and the Cyprus Bar Council -- The shadow of Strasbourg : international advocacy and Britain's response -- Hunger war : humanitarian rights and the Radfan campaign -- This unhappy affair : investigating torture in Aden -- A more talkative place : Northern Ireland

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