US decapitation doctrine signals end of Westphalian order

For nearly four centuries, the global order has rested on the foundation of Westphalian sovereignty: the idea that a state has exclusive authority over its territory and that a head of state is shielded from the jurisdiction of foreign courts. Now that principle has not merely been challenged. It was dismantled. The capture of Nicolás
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