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Declared and Undeclared Wars
Volume 3, Issue 1 (2017), pp. 25–31
René Värk  

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https://doi.org/10.1515/jobs-2017-0004
Pub. online: 1 June 2017      Type: Research Article      Open accessOpen Access

Received
20 March 2017
Accepted
3 April 2017
Published
1 June 2017

Abstract

Occasionally, people characterise foreign military interventions as “undeclared wars”. It is not entirely clear what is the meaning and value of such a qualification, but it seems that they want to add an extra weight to their condemnation. Still, does it have legal significance? At times, international law demanded that States issued a declaration of war before the commencement of hostilities but the obligation was mostly ignored for varied reasons. Notably, between two world wars, States avoided
certain legal obligations (e.g. the prohibition to use war, the rules of warfare) by not declaring or otherwise recognising a state of war. After the Second World
War, considering the earlier abuses, States redesigned
the international legal regulations in a way that the declaration of war became practically irrelevant when it comes to the legality or illegality of the use of armed force, or to the application of law.

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armed conflict use of force declaration of war

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