Porter Convention on the Limitation of the Employment of Force for the Recovery of Contract Debts

The Porter Convention, adopted at the second Hague Peace Conference in 1907, addresses the use of force for recovering contract debts. It stipulates that armed force should not be employed to collect debts owed by one nation to another. This principle was influenced by the Calvo Doctrine, which advocated for nations to use their own legal systems for resolving disputes involving foreigners and discouraged diplomatic intervention or the use of force for debt collection. The convention aimed to limit military action in such financial matters, though the United States reserved its own right to intervene if its interests were threatened.12