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A 'threat' is when you tell someone you will do something to them if they don't do what you are asking them to do.
The threat can have a form of an explicit or implicit message.
It can also be any source of probable impending danger (e.g. "a terrorist threat"), or a warning of an impending danger.

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International law

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International law

A definition of 'threat' between States, attributed to British lawyer Ian Brownlie, is that:
:a threat of force consist[s] [of]^[1] an express or implied promise by a government of a resort to force conditional on non-acceptance of certain demands of that government.^[2][3]
The 1969 notes in its preamble that both the threat and the use of force are prohibited. Moreover, in Article 52, it establishes the principle that if threats of using force are made during diplomatic negotiations, then any resulting treaty is invalid, stating "A treaty is void if its conclusion has been procured by the threat or use of force in violation of the principles of international law embodied in the Charter of the United Nations. "

See also

★ Imminent threat

★ Coercion

References

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2. International Law and the Use of Force by States, Ian Brownlie, CBE, QC, FBA, March 26, 1963, Oxford University Press
3. Submission by Aidan O’Neill QC, Aidan O'Neill QC