1 post tagged “privateers”
Surfing news sites this week, I found two really great articles that I wanted to reccomend for people. As I don't have any way to make them sidebar posts (ala Airbag), or less obtrusive inline quotes (ala Kottke), I've got to do an entire post for it.
"We suffer from a surfeit of baffling labels-"progressive realism," "realistic Wilsonianism," "progressive internationalism," "democratic globalism"-that require a scorecard to keep straight. But perhaps there's a simpler way. For the moment at least, where you line up on any foreign-policy question has less to do with whether you're Republican or Democrat, isolationist or internationalist-and more to do with what year you think it is."
"More than 2,000 years ago, Marcus Tullius Cicero defined pirates in Roman law as hostis humani generis, "enemies of the human race." From that day until now, pirates have held a unique status in the law as international criminals subject to universal jurisdiction—meaning that they may be captured wherever they are found, by any person who finds them. The ongoing war against pirates is the only known example of state vs. nonstate conflict until the advent of the war on terror, and its history is long and notable.
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"By the 16th century, piracy had emerged as an essential, though unsavory, tool of statecraft. Queen Elizabeth viewed English pirates as adjuncts to the royal navy, and regularly granted them "letters of marque" (later known as privateering, or piracy, commissions) to harass Spanish trade."
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