Such a rule, if applied in the intercourse of nations, would invalidate most of those conventions after war or menace by which one power has assumed obligations to another, and, indeed, would strike at war and menace as modes of pursuing a claim.
He suggests that applying the principle of duress to international relations would invalidate many treaties made under coercion.
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