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The foregoing historical survey of the evolution of the doctrine of state immunity would have shown that the distinction between the public acts and the private acts of the foreign state was pivotal in the development of the restrictive approach to state immunity. By the same token, the denial of such a distinction altogether or the emphasis put on the difficulties surrounding the distinction even if its principle is not challenged, are at the core of the absolute doctrine of state immunity. Because of this centrality of the distinction to the law of state immunity, it deserves a closer analytical examination before we proceed further with our consideration of the subject.
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Badr, G.M. (1984). Proposed Criteria for the Distinction between Public Acts and Private Acts of the Foreign State. In: State Immunity. Developments in International Law. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1181-0_5
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