Are there Boundaries under International Law?
8.1) The Main International Law Concepts Under the traditional notions of sovereignty and international law, states can act as they see fit within their territory. But woe to them if they claim “imperium” beyond their frontiers – the original sin of extraterritorial ambition. Many states, and all of the major ones, carry out questionable acts beyond their borders: Abduction (Colonel Argoud arrested by French secret services in Munich; a Mexican drug dealer and torturer captured in Mexico by US drug enforcement agents , the laying of mines around the harbours of Nicaragua by US agents or explosion of bombs destroying the Greenpeace ship in New Zealand by French agents , and numerous clandestine activities, usually directed at disliked foreign governments, supporting insurgent movements abroad, combating exiles abroad or imposing one’s law against conspicuous contraveners (e.g. Salman Rushdie) abroad are the most glaring cases. They are rarely defended in public and governments usually d
