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Does international law actually impose real constraints on states? Michael Poznansky, associate professor at the U.S. Naval War College, discusses why states choose to pursue overt vs. covert action, the role of plausible deniability, and the \u201chypocrisy costs\u201d associated frequent violations of the non-intervention principle.

Show Notes

• Michael Poznansky bio
• Michael Poznansky (2021), "The Psychology of Overt and Covert Intervention," Security Studies 30, no. 3 (2021): pp. 325\u2013353.
• Michael Poznansky, In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).
• Michael Poznansky, \u201cThe Appeal of Covert Action: Psychology and the Future of Irregular Warfare,\u201d Modern War Institute, September 6, 2021.
• Michael Poznansky, "Revisiting Plausible Deniability," Journal of Strategic Studies 45, no. 4 (2022): pp. 511-533.
• Martha Finnemore, \u201cLegitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity: Why Being a Unipole Isn\u2019t All It\u2019s Cracked Up to Be,\u201d World Politics 61, no. 1 (January 2009): pp. 58-85.

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