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Professor Monica Hakimi on Territorial Conflict and International Law
A basic norm of international law—embedded in the international order for several decades—prohibits a state from forcibly taking foreign territory. But conflicts over territory are becoming more common, says Monica Hakimi, William S. Beinecke Professor of …