Effect of war and state of war on international relations of states

Abstract

The first part of the paper deals with the effect of the outbreak of war or the state of war, on the international relations of states. Following is a brief overview of the differences between the war as a factual and wartime state as a legal category. Within the special sections, the effect on relations with the enemy (the entry into force of the rules of war and humanitarian law, the termination of diplomatic relations, the effect on treaties, the status of alien enemies), relations with allies, relations with neutral countries (rights and obligations of neutral states, the position of neutral aliens, etc.) and, ultimately, relations with international organizations (which can appear in the role of enemies, the allies, the neutral side and in the special role of the factors concerned with the preservation of world peace) were analyzed. The conclusion is that many issues relating to the effects of war or the state of war on relations with international organizations are not sufficiently addressed in the legal literature.

Keywords

• war
• state of war
• international law
• enemy
• neutral state
• international organizations