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But conventional engagements happened outside Europe much more rarely than within it. More important, the overwhelming majority of colonial violence took place within empires. As such, it was not subject to any international law, which did not purport to regulate the “domestic” affairs of private ranches like Leopold’s Congo or even of far-flung polities on which the sun never set.
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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