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July 21, 2007

The occupation in Iraq and international law

Earlier this week, there was a very interesting BBC radio programme on the occupation in Iraq: listen again here. The programme discusses how the occupation was viewed in international law, and how this relates to issues of sovereignty. There's also a fascinating tension between the legal and the normative: between a legal imperative for the occupation to change relatively little in Iraq, and a (not altogether unjustified) US and UK desire to change the status quo in Iraq.

Posted by jon_mendel at July 21, 2007 03:47 PM

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