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Mr Khan said:
noname2200 said:
Actually, privateering would be as close as you can get to legal piracy.

-Sir Francis Drake

I wonder if privateering is legal under international law, if someone were authorized by a country's armed forces for the plunder of trade without an existing state of war, would that be allowed?

Yes, it remains legally valid. It's been barred by treaty in several dozen nations though. I don't recall it being used anytime in the past century or so.