Killing Norms Softly: US Targeted Killing, Quasi-secrecy and the Assassination Ban
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عنوان ژورنال: Security Studies
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0963-6412,1556-1852
DOI: 10.1080/09636412.2018.1483633