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Definition: belligerency from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

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(1815) 1 : the state of being at war or in conflict; specif : the status of a legally recognized belligerent state or nation 2 : belligerence

belligerency

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(bӘlĭj'ӘrӘnsē), in international law, status of parties legally at war. Belligerency exists in a war between nations or in a civil war if the established government treats the insurgent force as if it were a sovereign power. The rules of international law as formulated at the Hague Conferences require that belligerency between states be preceded by an absolute declaration of war or an ultimatum prescribing the terms on which the issuing power will refrain from war. When belligerency has been established, the relations between the warring powers are determined by the laws of war (see war, laws of ). In civil wars if the insurgent force is granted belligerency rights, neutral nations generally abstain from supplying or helping either the established government or its opponent. An example of this practice is found in the neutrality proclamations issued by European powers in the American Civil War. Neutral nations may refuse to recognize the belligerency of an insurgent, however, and in…
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From Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought
The legal condition or status of the parties to public war. There seem to be two requirements: an actual contest of arms, and an intention, recognition or declaration of this sufficient to attribute the contest to the parties. In international contests belligerency usually begins with a formal…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(bӘlĭj'ӘrӘnsē), in international law, status of parties legally at war. Belligerency exists in a war between nations or in a civil war if the established government treats the insurgent force as if it were a sovereign power. The rules of international law as formulated at the Hague Conferences…
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From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Diplomacy
A status which, under the traditional law of * war , may be accorded by * third parties to an insurgent group within a * sovereign state which as a matter of fact exercises such governmental authority over part of that state and wields such power as to suggest that the conflict has moved beyond the…
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
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From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Diplomacy
The position of those states which not only remain * neutral during all wars between third parties but accept no commitments in peacetime (* alliances or military * base agreements, for example) which might lead them into * belligerency in some future contingency. This peacetime aloofness from…
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