Human Rights and Sovereign Standards in US Security

This book examines the history of human rights in US security imaginaries and provides 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 and instability that are then subject to increasingly pre-emptive pacification. While largely focused