Responsibility of the State hosting foreign military bases for acts of aggression

Abstract

Abstract: This study examines the determination of the international responsibility of a state that hosts foreign military bases on its territory whenever these military bases commit unjustified acts of aggression against the bases of other states located in the territory of the receiving state itself or against the territory of other states. The occurrence of these acts leads to the exposure of the very foundation of the international legal system, which is built on a set of rules whose purpose is to prevent acts of aggression and not to rely on force in international relations and calls for the peaceful resolution of international disputes. Despite the sending state’s attempt to confer some legitimacy on the existence of its bases by concluding international treaties with the receiving state, these bases are a true colonial means that guarantees its interests. Accordingly, when acts of aggression occur from these bases, the international responsibility of the receiving state appears indivisible from the responsibility of the state that sent the foreign military bases, based on United Nations General Assembly Resolution No. (3314) of 1974, the draft law on the responsibility of states for unlawful acts, as well as the guiding principles regarding the joint responsibility of states