Are the US Navy attacks on ships off the coast of Venezuela and Colombia legal? And are they unprecedented? On today’s show we explore the legality of these attacks and the precedents for them under the global war on terror and the war on drugs. [ dur: 58mins. ]
- Marten Willem Brienen is associate professor of Global Studies at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of book chapter Coca, Organized Crime, and (Non-)Violence in Bolivia and the book Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century: A Human Dumping Ground .
- Gabor Rona is Professor of Practice at Cardozo Law School. He is the author of Venezuelan Boat Attacks: Utterly Unprecedented and Patently Predictable ,Is There a Way Out of the Non-International Armed Conflict Detention Dilemma? and State Responsibility to Respect, Protect and Fulfill Human Rights Obligations in Cyberspace .
This program is produced by Doug Becker, Ankine Aghassian, Maria Armoudian and Sudd Dongre.
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