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International Norms and Cycles of Change

Wayne Sandholtz , Kendall Stiles

Prohibiting Plunder

Wayne Sandholtz

For much of history, the rules of war decreed that "to the victor go the spoils." The winners in warfare routinely seized for themselves the artistic and cultural treasures of the defeated; plunder constituted a marker of triumph. By the twentieth century, international...