Status Quo

• Status Quo: meaning ‘the state of affairs that currently exists’.
  • It is the shortened version of ‘Status Quo Ante Bellum’.

• Status Quo Ante Bellum:
  • meaning ‘the state of affairs that existed before the war’.
  • During the fourteenth century CE Diplomatic Treaties were written in Latin.
  • The phrase referred to when both sides had agreed to withdraw after a war, so that neither side had gained or lost territorial, economic or political advantage.

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