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PETRA DITRICHOVÁǧOCHMANNOVÁ CYIL 7 ȍ2016Ȏ and potentially damaging confusion in the armed forces”. 62 In the longer view, the current international legal order based on well recognized principles of “bona fidei” and “pacta sunt servanda” may face difficulties in sustaining its existence in a time of double standards. Erosion of the existing international order is a real threat and endangers the whole protective system build under the LOAC.

62 HEINTSCHEL VON HEINEGG, “The Impact of Law on Contemporary Military Operations: Sacrificing security interests on the alter of political correctness”, in Hestermeyer HP et al . (eds) Coexistence, cooperation and solidarity , Liber Amicorum for Rudiger Wolfram. Brill Academic Publisher, Leiden, 2011, p. 5-7. Citation retaken in: William B. Boothby, Conflict Law: the Influence of New Weapons Technology, Human Rights and Emerging Actors, T.M.C. Asser Press, 2014, p. 21.

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