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Comparing U.S. And E.U. Strategies Against Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Some Legal Consequences, Milagros Alvarez-Verdugo

Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law

International regulation and control of WMD is not a United States - European Union bilateral issue, but it appears on the political agenda of the transatlantic relation and agreements or disagreements between the two have international consequences. Agreements signal joint action by an important part of the international community and, often, can inspire or encourage universal commitments as well as other international actions. Disagreements, however, block such joint action and, sometimes, impede international measures of universal (or at least collective) scope. Within this context, the purpose of this article is to analyze how these two major international actors, the United …