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The Effect Of Duress On The Iranian Hostage Settlement Agreement, James M. Redwine
The Effect Of Duress On The Iranian Hostage Settlement Agreement, James M. Redwine
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
As soon as the United States began celebrating the hostages' release, the validity of the agreement became a subject of intense controversy. Conservative commentators urged that the United States "renounce the deal." To them, the Declaration was not an agreement but extortion, and had "the same moral standing as an agreement made with a kidnapper, that is to say, none at all..."
Although it will take years of litigation and commentary to assess the full significance and consequences of the hostage taking and the settlement agreement, some preliminary observations may be made. The Declaration poses many difficult questions of international …
Books Received, Journal Staff
Books Received, Journal Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Books Received
AFRICAN GOALS AND DIPLOMATIC STRATEGIES IN THE UNITED NATIONS By Moses E. Akpan
North Quincy, Mass.: Christopher Publishing House, 1976. Pp. 165. $9.95.
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BASIC PROBLEMS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
Edited by P.D. Dagtoglou
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1975. Pp. xvii, 286, $18.00.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY ON TAXATION OF FOREIGN OPERATIONS AND FOREIGNERS: 1968-1975
By Elisabeth Owens & Gretchen Hovemeyer
Cambridge, Mass.: International Tax Program, Harvard Law School,1976. Pp. xiii, 107. $7.50.
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THE CONSTITUTION AND THE CONDUCT OF FOREIGN POLICY
Edited by Francis 0. Wilcox and Richard A. Frank
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. Pp. xiv, 145. $12.50.
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