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A phrase used in International Law to describe retaliatory action taken by one foreign government against another for the stringent or harsh regulation or treatment of its citizens who are within the geographical boundaries of the foreign country. The typical methods of retorsion are the use of comparably severe measures against citizens of the foreign nation found within the borders of the retaliating nation. RETORSION, war. The name of the act employed by a government to impose the
same hard treatment on the citizens or subjects of a state, that the latter
has used towards the citizens or subjects of the former, for the purpose of
obtaining the removal of obnoxious measures. Vattel, liv. 2, c. 18, Sec.
341; De Martens, Precis, liv. 8, c. 2, Sec. 254; Kluber, Droit dos Gens, s.
2 c. 1, Sec. 234; Mann. Comm. 105.
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No references found | Moreover, international law explicitly prohibits attacks of which the primary purpose is to intimidate or instill terror in the civilian population whether the Israeli practice of retorsion or perfidy. He also addresses enforcement mechanisms, rejecting the usefulness of retorsion, reprisal, and sanctions in favor of an international compliance control mechanism. 17) Such protection could take the form of "consular action, negotiation, mediation, judicial and arbitral proceedings, reprisals, retorsion, severance of diplomatic relations, economic pressure and, the final resort, the use of force. |
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