After stating the first condition entailing a State’s international responsibility, ie an internationally wrongful act,1 and after defining the elements constituting that act—characterized by its subjective dimension (the attribution of the act to a subject of international law) as well as by its objective dimension (the violation of an international obligation)2—the Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts deal with the question how to ‘characteriz[e] an act of a State as internationally wrongful’.3 They draw on one of the most...
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