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.

Sarah Earnshaw is a postdoctoral researcher in American Studies and Cultural Studies currently based at the DFG research group 'Practicing Place', KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her research interests include: spatialities of social and cultural conflict; class composition and labour mobilisation; solidarity and resistance; critical security; and conceptions of freedom and autonomy.

1. Writing Rights: Natural, Man, Human 2. Securing the Individual: "A Call for US leadership" 3. Security as Freedom: The (New) American Century 4. The Burdens of (Liberal) Imperialism 5. Development and Democracy: Three Worlds and the Outlaws 6. (In)Dispensable Nation(s) 7. Unable or Unwilling 8. Humanising War: Normalising Security 9. Counterinsurgency: Military Operations Other Than War 10. Aviation as Pacification