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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 "Troubles" in Northern Ireland (1969-1976). This book is enriched by Drohan's use of a newly available collection of 1.2 million colonial-era files, International Committee of the Red Cross files, the extensive Troubles collection at Linen Hall Library in Belfast, and many other sources.Drohan argues that when faced with human rights activism, British officials sought to evade, discredit, and deflect public criticism of their actions to avoid drawing attention to brutal counterinsurgency practices such as the use of torture during interrogation. Some of the topics discussed in the book, such as the use of violence against civilians, the desire to uphold human rights values while simultaneously employing brutal methods, and the dynamic of wars waged in the glare of the media, are of critical interest to scholars, lawyers, and government officials dealing with the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those to come in the future.

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History of Europe

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 janvier 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501714672
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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Brutality in an Age of Human Rights

Brutalityin an Age of Human Rights Activism and Counterinsurgencyat the End of the British Empire

B r i a n D r o h a n

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without

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Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca,

New York 14850.

First published 2017 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Drohan, Brian, 1983– author.

Title: Brutality in an age of human rights : activism and

counterinsurgency at the end of the British empire / Brian Drohan.

Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017. | Includes

bibliographical references and index.

Identiers: LCCN 2017024006 (print) | LCCN 2017026166 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781501714672 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501714665 (ret) |

ISBN 9781501714658 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Counterinsurgency—Cyprus. |

Counterinsurgency—Yemen (Republic)—Aden. |

Counterinsurgency—Northern Ireland. | Human rights—Cyprus. |

Human rights—Yemen (Republic)—Aden. | Human rights— Northern Ireland. | Cyprus—History—War for Union with Greece, 1955–1959. | Yemen (Arab Republic)—History—1962–1970. | Northern Ireland—History—1968–1998. | Postcolonialism—Great Britain. Classication: LCC U241 (ebook) | LCC U241 .D76 2017 (print) | DDC 355.02/1809171209045—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017024006

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Civilian beaten in Nicosia street, n.d. Courtesy of Press and

Information Ofce, Ministry of Interior, Government of Cyprus.

For

Mark Daily, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army

David Schultz, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army

Clinton Ruiz, Sergeant, U.S. Army

Mike Gilotti, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army

and the loved ones they left behind

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.War”: Humanitarian Rights and the “Hunger Radfan Campaign 4. “This Unhappy Affair”: Investigating Torture in Aden

“A More Talkative Place”: Northern Ireland

Conclusion: From the Colonial to the Contemporary

Notes Bibliography Index

vii

ix xiii

114 151 187

195 227 231

Acknowledgments

The inspiration for this book came from my personal experiences as a U.S. Army ofcer and my academic studies in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but the project would never have come to fruition without help from a long list of mentors and colleagues. While I was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, Walter McDougall, Ron ald Granieri, and Jeffrey Engel steered me toward international and mili tary history. During my operational assignments in the army, I have been fortunate to work with talented military and foreign service ofcers such as Jeff Anderson, John Craven, Valerie Fowler, Chris Gunning, Patrick Hu, Kelly Jones, John Nagl, Amos Oh, Tom Ryno, Chris Teal, and Diem Vo. Glen Davis encouraged me to choose history as my graduate school discipline. At UNCChapel Hill, Susan Pennybacker and Wayne Lee helped me de velop this project from its early stages to completion. I also beneted from a wideranging faculty in the global and military history subelds, particu larly Mike Morgan, Cemil Aydin, Klaus Larres, and Joe Glatthaar. For my friends and colleagues Jessica Auer, Ansev Demirhan, Joel Hebert, Erika Huckestein, Mark Reeves, Jordan Smith, Larissa Stiglich, and Mary Eliza beth Walters: thank you for helping me navigate life as a graduate student. Joel helped me articulate what exactly I wanted to study and how to ap proach the topic and helped sharpen my arguments by commenting on sev eral chapters. Mark read every word of the entire manuscript and posed several probing questions in addition to catching numerous typographical errors. I nished this book while teaching in the history department at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, which was a phenomenal intellectual envi ronment in which to work. I owe many thanks to Colonels Ty Seidule and

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