Foreign Policy and International Law

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On October 19, 2012, the Copenhagen Process on the Handling of Detainees in International Military Operations (€œthe Process) welcomed the adoption of the Copenhagen Process Principles and Guidelines (€œPrinciples and Guidelines€).[1] This Insight provides a brief background to the Process and the Principles and Guidelines and explains the significance of this development.

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In recent weeks, media reports have addressed actions, discoveries, and controversies relating to cybersecurity and cyberspace that have implications for international law, including war, espionage, terrorism, and crime in cyberspace and the architecture and governance of the Internet. This Insight describes these episodes and analyzes their importance for the relationship between international law and cybersecurity and cyberspace.

Developments and Revelations Concerning Cybersecurity and Cyberspace

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Once again, tensions are mounting in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. In response to Western powers’ import bans on Iranian oil and warnings of other sanctions against Iran because of its nuclear program, Iran has threatened to block the passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. The United States in turn has increased its naval presence in the Strait of Hormuz, ostensibly in an exercise of its “transit rights of passage” under the law of the sea.

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