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concept-2780	Noland, Andrew	Aesthetics as State Security: International Law, Art Repatriation, and Ontological Security	2023	24	.pdf	application/pdf	7521	385	41	Brown (2021) posits that the development of international cultural property law is maintained by a “self-serving legal system” whose role is to protect the holders of plundered art rather than provide a vehicle for wronged parties to seek restitution.xxv Because international law requires state compliance in both enforcement and passage of legislation, there are substantial domestic interests which might prevent the return of cultural property to their homelands. Because the necessary requirement for participating in international law was possessing state power, positivists actively excluded and subordinated indigenous colonized peoples.	cache/concept-2780.pdf	txt/concept-2780.txt