The Aden pivot? British counter-insurgency after Aden

Dingli, Sophia; Kennedy, Caroline

Abstract

This article argues that the Aden Insurgency was a pivotal moment in the history of British counter-insurgency. We argue that it was in Aden where the newfound strength of human rights discourse, embodied in Amnesty International, and of anti-colonial sentiment, expressed by the UN General Assembly, forced the British government to pay attention to public perceptions of colonial brutality. Using archival sources, we foreground three episodes in the history of the insurgency to support our argument and to illustrate that the changes witnessed were not the result of ‘learning’ but of a fundamental shift in the international environment.

Citation

Dingli, S., & Kennedy, C. (2014). The Aden pivot? British counter-insurgency after Aden. Civil Wars, 16(1), 86-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2014.904987

• Online Publication Date: May 8, 2014
• Publication Date: Jan 2, 2014
• Deposit Date: Jun 15, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 27, 2022
• Journal: Civil wars
• Print ISSN: 1369-8249
• Electronic ISSN: 1743-968X
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 86-104
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2014.904987
• Keywords: Aden insurgency, British counter-insurgency
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/439635
• Publisher URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13698249.2014.904987
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