Lawfare is a useful tool for state and non-state actors to achieve strategic goals that have traditionally been attainable through diplomatic or military means. Accordingly, Lawfare is defined as one or more of the following characteristics: a form of asymmetric warfare using a legal system against an adversary; an instrument of state power; or a strategy that stipulates how a state should engage in international law and foreign relations. Within the field of international law, the scope, nature, and employment of lawfare focus on the perspective of a state’s influence within the international system, the interests of that country, and what purpose that state is seeking to achieve with the use of lawfare. In contemporary international politics, the concept of lawfare is illustrated through the diplomatic creation and signing of international laws and agreements.