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CPA
CPA
Embracing mainstream international law, this section on cpa explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.
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Further Reading
- The entry “cpa” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press
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