Century of Anarchy?

The nineteenth century has been understood as an age in which states could wage war against each other if they deemed it politically necessary. According to this narrative, it was not until the establishment of the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the UN Charter that the ''free right to go to war'' (liberum ius ad bellum) was gradually outlawed. Better times dawned as this anarchy o...