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The Lawyers' War: Counterterrorism From Bush To Obama To Trump, Dawn E. Johnsen
The Lawyers' War: Counterterrorism From Bush To Obama To Trump, Dawn E. Johnsen
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Espionage As A Sovereign Right Under International Law And Its Limits, Asaf Lubin
Espionage As A Sovereign Right Under International Law And Its Limits, Asaf Lubin
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The literature surrounding the international legality of peacetime espionage has so far centered around one single question: whether there exist within treaty or customary international law prohibitive rules against the collection of foreign intelligence in times of peace. Lacking such rules, argue the permissivists, espionage functions within a lotus vacuum, one in which States may spy on each other and on each other's nationals with no restrictions, justifying their behavior through the argumentum ad hominem of "tu quoque." . . .