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... n B. Rhinelander is senior counsel a t Shaw Pittm an, Washington, D .C ., an d former legal advisor to the U .S. S A L T I delegation that negotiated the A B M Treaty. National Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty N o N eed to W reck the Accord Philip E...

... a long way toward reducing the toll. The 193 members of the United Nations tried this past July to do just that in a draft Arms Trade Treaty—and failed, yet again. A simple matter, it would seem. They’ve been trying every year since 1946 when the United Nations first met in Lake Success, New York...

... the Rome the close of World War II, the victorious al­ Treaty on the permanent International lies established the International Military Criminal Court (icc). Concluded in July Tribunal for the prosecution and punish­ 1998, the treaty provided that until Decem­ ment of the major war criminals...

... President Bush’s unusual decision to “unsign” the treaty creating the International Criminal Court. That was followed by an unsettling and peculiar American threat to scut­ tle United Nations peacekeepers in Bosnia unless U.S. soldiers were granted immunity from prosecution by the new...

... in the stockpiles of nuclear weapons. And George W. Bush did utter some lofty and most nations are well aware that the abm generally forgotten words about national se­ Treaty also stands in the way of the next curity. Russia “is no longer our enemy,” he likely military push by the United States— declared...

...? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties (Apex Press, 2003). Arms Control Abandoned The Case of Biological Weapons Nicole Deller an dJoh n Burroughs Despite their genetic linkage and an over­ Test-Ban Treaty. More surprisingly, George...

... rules. The EU can often seem opaque to based upon the constitutional treaty will nonspecialists. What follows is an attempt likely be reached during the Dutch presi­ to outline what the fuss is all about. dency of the EU in the second half of 2004. The first broad marker to bear in mind...

... Test Ban Treaty, the first NATO alliance, and the World Bank and In­ major arms control agreement of the nuclear ternational Monetary Fund, among others. age. He had prepared the way in his call at He shared Jefferson’s “decent respect to American University for a comprehensive the opinions...

... in Some Hard Truths about Multilateralism 29 1993, for example, organized labor refused military pressure on both counts, refusing to to campaign enthusiastically for the Democ­ sign the landmines ban and making no ef­ rats in the following year’s congressional fort to get the ICC Treaty...

... 1994 President Clinton had to govern with a hostile Congress that resisted bipartisan cooperation. The Republican Senate killed the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty banning all nuclear testing, which was a crushing defeat for the administration. In addition, faced with a hostile Congress...

... and allies from a nuclear attack. He has fol­ ising avenues for terrorists seeking a nuclear lowed through on this concern in a variety weapon than cutting a deal with Saddam of ways: abandoning the Anti-Ballistic Mis­ Hussein’s regime, which on present evi­ sile Treaty, boosting missile defense...

... policy philosophy, walk­ in vogue during the first year of the Bush ing away from a number of international administration. During the president’s June treaties and commitments. Whereas its trip to Europe, transatlantic commentators predecessor had made a blanket commit­ discerned an American...

... Europe.” This senti­ power. An American military presence on ment ran through George Washington’s the continent— permanent, substantial, Farewell Address (as well as Thomas Jeffer­ visible, and codified by treaty— was, there­ son’s own subsequent warning against “en­ fore, reassuring. These were...

... the treaty known as the Kyoto Proto­ administration on Kyoto, it is in the world’s col.1 The president is as adamantly opposed interest to find other, more creative, ways of to the protocol as environmentalists are achieving the treaty’s goals without requir­ overwhelmingly in favor of the international...

... 3 7 of the new democracy, would ask people if ing the Americans practically invisible to they “revered and respected” the emperor. most Japanese. The curious security treaty is But that was asking for a sentiment appro­ a source of both shame and relief. The pub­ priate to the Meiji state...

... in its territory. The state tablished in both treaty law and customary party is required either to extradite an al­ law by the Geneva Conventions, and the leged offender (Article 8) or to establish its Torture Convention.9 own jurisdiction over the offenses (Articles The law lords agreed. None...

... labor unions or independent student lowing the Opium War (1839-42), a pe­ associations, the administration could have riod during which Shanghai and other so- harked back to China’s imperial era. Some called treaty ports were divided into Chi­ Chinese emperors, when seeking to start nese...

... the outcome of Iran’s deliberations, stacking assessments. The first shock came last Au­ the scales in favor of those within Iran who gust when U.S. intelligence reported that seek to remain within the confines of the Iran had built extensive facilities for the en­ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...