Was the US refusal to extradite the CEO of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, after the 1984 Bhopal disaster better explained by the structural limits on post-colonial states’ ability to secure accountability from Western corporate actors, or by routine practices in interstate extradition decisions?

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Was the US refusal to extradite the CEO of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, after the 1984 Bhopal disaster better explained by the structural limits on post-colonial states’ ability to secure accountability from Western corporate actors, or by routine practices in interstate extradition decisions?

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