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no bull and the aftermath.

I end day is successfully sworn in as the president of Chile in November of 1970 and

for the next three years basically the Nixon administration shifts gears and

works in a variety of areas political economic and military to destabilize and

undermine I end day and eventually it seems to work in 1973 September 11th.

I end day is overthrown by Augusto Pinochet who is the dictator for the next

nearly two decades and there's a longstanding debate about the kind of

marginal influence that US involvement had in the ultimate coup but it's clear

from the historical record that for three years the administration was

certainly trying from the shadows to overthrow I end day.

I'm David Prius and this is the LawFair podcast June 5th 2020.

We normally think of international law as constraining leaders actions

especially aggression toward other countries but what if one effect of an

established international principle actually spurs more covert action against

other countries. Michael Pzenanski is an assistant professor of international

affairs and intelligence studies in the Graduate School of Public and International

Affairs with a secondary appointment in the political science department at the

University of Pittsburgh. In his new book in the shadow of international law

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