The US and EU are applying a new level of economic pressure against Russia: sovereign asset seizure, , assistant professor of history in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频, .
鈥淚n a recent discussion paper, the US government supports confiscation as a 鈥榗ountermeasure鈥 for states 鈥榠njured鈥 and 鈥榮pecifically affected鈥 by Russia鈥檚 war. This claim invokes the international legal doctrine of reprisals,鈥 . 鈥淐ontinued western aid to Ukraine is morally, legally and strategically urgent. Yet as a justification for confiscating Russian state assets, the reprisals argument has three problems: it lacks competent effect, it is being invoked by the wrong parties and it undermines the rules-based order wester governments claim to defend.鈥
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