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| Private international law |
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Law pertaining to routinized transnational intercourse between or among states as well as nonstate actors.
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| law pwertaining to government -to government relations |
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| the formal legal acceptance of a state's official status as an independent country. Defacto recognition acknowledges the factual existence of another state or government short of full recognition. De jure recognition gives a government formal, legal recognition. |
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| the legal principle prohibiting one state from interfering in another state's internal affairs. |
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| a set of criteria that indicate when it is morally justifiable to wage war on how it should be fought once it begins. |
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| a hostile but legal retaliatory act aimed at punishing anothr state's prior illegal actions. |
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| a doctrine asserting that violation of the rules of war may be excussed during periods of extreme emergency |
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| acts performed during war that the international community defines as illegal, such as atrocities committed against enemy civilians and prisoners of war. |
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| a security regime guided by the principle that an act of aggression by any sate will be met with a unified response from the rest. |
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| actions taken in advance of a preictable crisis to prevent superpower involvement and limit violence. |
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| a peaceful settlement processes such as good offices, conciliation, and mediation, designed to resolve the issues that led to armed conflict |
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| post conflict actions, predominantly diplomatic and economic, that strenthen and rebuild governmental infrastructure and institutions in order to avoid recourse to armed conflict. |
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| a military organization within a specific region created to protect its members from external attack |
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| a military organization within a specific region created to protect its members from external attack |
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| a reform movement proposing to combine sovereign states into a single unified federal state. |
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| the processes and activities by which the populations of two or more states transfer their loyalties to a merged political and economic unit. |
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| a theory of political integration based on the assumption that technical coopertion among different nationalities in economic and social fields will build communitites that trancend soverign states. |
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| the propensity for sucfcesful integration across one area of cooperation between states to propel further integration in other areas. |
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| a revised functionalist theory asserting that the IGO's states create to manage common problems provide benefits that exert presures for further political integration. |
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| a granting political power to ethnopolitical groups within a state under the expectation that greater autonomy for them in particular regions will curtail their quest for independence. |
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