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Feb 2021
39m 29s

Dangerous proportions: Means and Ends in...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Professor Nehal Bhuta, University of Edinburgh and Dr Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, University of Amsterdam, give a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. Philip Alston’s deep worries about the institutionalization of the tactic of targeting killing, the ensuing extension of warfare and its corrosive consequences for any meaningful possibility of sc ... Show More
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