Human Rights and Sovereign Standards in US Security
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.
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 disorder...
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.
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 disorder...
