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Unintentional Levels Of Force In §1983 Excessive Force Claims, Nathan R. Pittman May 2012

Unintentional Levels Of Force In §1983 Excessive Force Claims, Nathan R. Pittman

William & Mary Law Review

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Superpower Responsibility For State Recognition: Charting A Course For Nagorno-Karabakh, Amit Chhabra Jan 2012

Superpower Responsibility For State Recognition: Charting A Course For Nagorno-Karabakh, Amit Chhabra

Amit Chhabra

Nations routinely refrain from intervening in one another’s domestic affairs out of mutual respect for territorial integrity and international comity. On this basis, the international community has since 1994 determined to not recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh region (NKR) as independent from the Republic of Azerbaijan, with the understanding that this view might change if an OSCE -sponsored negotiation effort determines that NKR should gain de jure independence rather than obtain a semi-autonomous status within Azerbaijan. By contrast, some of the world’s leading powers have quickly recognized or dismissed similar independence struggles, where doing so was guided by their own strategic interests …