With the last weeks of U.S. strikes on alleged drug dealer boats and saying they are in "a non-international armed conflict" with drug cartels, we ask 'when is war' and whether a state can just announce it is at war, with Tamsin Phillipa Paige and Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg.

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