Casus belliとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.səs ˈbɛl.aɪ/, /- ˈbɛl.i/
• (複数形) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.sus ˈbɛl.aɪ/

名詞

casus belli (複数形 casus belli または casus bellis)

1. An act seen as justifying or causing a war; an act of war.
   • 1897, Congressional Record, U.S. Government Printing Office 1897, p. 664

     The Executive, however, can do many acts which would constitute a casus belli, and thus indirectly result in war; but this does not imply in the Executive a concurrent power to declare war, and the war which would result would be one declared by a foreign power.

   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 309:

     Algiers seethed, and this was the casus belli for the ‘ultras’ to attempt a general strike.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 138:

     Furthermore, if the French had airily waved away one potential casus belli, more than enough causes of potential conflict remained embedded in the Aix-la-Chapelle Treaty.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 290:

     Had Saddam taken only the Rumaila oil field and the Bubiyan and Warba islands, there would have been no casus belli.

   • 2022 March 1, Mary Elise Sarotte, “I’m a Cold War Historian. We’re in a Frightening New Era.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     And Washington needs to communicate clearly with not only its allies but also the American public on the risks involved if spillover from Ukraine into Article 5 territory verges on a casus belli — an event that provokes a war.