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Proposals To Establish A Nordic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, Bengt Broms
Proposals To Establish A Nordic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, Bengt Broms
Michigan Journal of International Law
Today, after a long silence, the Nordic States are again investigating the idea of establishing a Nordic nuclear-weapon-free zone. The renewed exchange of views is no doubt partly related to the continuing development of nuclear weapons and partly to the fear that even in circumstances where nuclear weapons would not be used against the Nordic States they present a threat to the region should major war break out. This fear was mentioned by Dr. Urho Kekkonen, the President of the Republic of Finland, in an address he delivered at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm on May 8, …
Interpreting The Withdrawal Clause In Arms Control Treaties, Cindy A. Cohn
Interpreting The Withdrawal Clause In Arms Control Treaties, Cindy A. Cohn
Michigan Journal of International Law
This Note argues that although a danger to future arms control may exist, a treaty clause must be susceptible to interpretation and boundaries of use which are in harmony with general international law principles. As Professor Schwelb has stated: "[I]t cannot have been… the intention of the parties to throw the principle of pacta sunt servanda overboard in favor of the anarchic idea of the unfettered right of a sovereign state to free itself unilaterally from a treaty obligation." Although Schwelb admits that the Clause itself is subject to "auto-interpretation" by the states parties to the treaty, he adds that …