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1992

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When Is An Amendment Not An Amendment? Modification Of Arms Control Agreements Without The Senate, David A. Koplow Jan 1992

When Is An Amendment Not An Amendment? Modification Of Arms Control Agreements Without The Senate, David A. Koplow

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The tempest over the proposed "reinterpretation" of the Anti- Ballistic Missile Treaty has only barely been stilled, and the full impact of the dissolution and reorganization of the Soviet Union is far from clear. But already we can detect early warnings about the next probable source of intense constitutional conflict between the American executive branch and the Congress in their ongoing struggle for primacy in the conduct of United States foreign relations. This imminent battle-again arising in the context of disarmament treaties, perhaps the most controversial and crucial aspect of America's international public policy-has not yet been fully joined. But …


The Jurisprudence Of Non-Proliferation: Taking International Law Seriously, David A. Koplow Jan 1992

The Jurisprudence Of Non-Proliferation: Taking International Law Seriously, David A. Koplow

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This essay is about the power of the international law of nonproliferation- its mounting power in the world today and its properly augmented power in an enlightened future. The article focuses on three primary areas in which international law may play a greater role than is commonly appreciated in affecting the behavior of potential proliferators, their suppliers, and their resolute opponents. The three topics-areas in which the essay pleads for law to be taken even more seriously, and by a wider audience of governments and the international public-are: (a) treaties (especially the provisions of those treaties that commit the parties …