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This chapter describes instances in which states revoked diplomatic immunity or stretched it to cover some strange circumstances. The use and abuse of diplomatic immunity might speak to larger issues regarding power. This chapter is awash in hypocrisy—powerful states applying different standards to themselves and others.
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This was the first US military operation for which publicists in the military created a corny name. Prior to this, the military had used cool codenames like Overlord, Archangel, or Valkyrie. But starting in 1989, operations would have codenames like Just Cause, Desert Eagle and Enduring Freedom. Why? Because a military official at the time said he didn’t want mothers to have to say that their sons were killed in “Operation Blue Spoon” or some asinine name like that. See Gregory C. Sieminski. “The Art of Naming Operations,” Parameters (Autumn 1995): 81–98. www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1995/sieminsk.htm.
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Mislan, D.B., Streich, P. (2019). Diplomatic Immunity…Revoked!. In: Weird IR. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75556-4_10
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