Brutality in an Age of Human Rights : Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
Brutality in an Age of Human Rights -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction: Counterinsurgency and Human Rights in the Post-1945 World -- 1. A Lawyers' War: Emergency Legislation and the Cyprus Bar Council -- 2. The Shadow of Strasbourg: International Advocacy and Britain's Response -- 3. "Hunger War": Humanitarian Rights and the Radfan Campaign -- 4. "This Unhappy Affair": Investigating Torture in Aden -- 5. "A More Talkative Place": Northern Ireland -- Conclusion: From the Colonial to the Contemporary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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9781501714672
Counterinsurgency-Cyprus. Counterinsurgency-Yemen (Republic)-Yemen, South. Counterinsurgency-Northern Ireland. Human rights-Cyprus. Human rights-Yemen (Republic)-Yemen, South. Human rights-Northern Ireland. Postcolonialism-Great Britain. Cyprus-History-War for Union with Greece, 1955-1959. Yemen (Arab Republic)-History-1962-1970. Northern Ireland-History-1968-1998.