The Conference on the legal status of the ABM Treaty: about the participants

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This article provides short biographies of panelists at the National Institute of Public Policy's conference on the legality of the Anti-Ballistic Missiles Treaty. Participants included Ambassador Max M. Kampelman, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Carl Levin, Douglas Feith, Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr., George Miron, Stephen Rademaker, John Rhinelander and Professor Robert Turner.

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The conference on the legal status of the ABM Treaty: law, politics, and the ABM Treaty

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This article discusses the issue of the succession of the former Soviet Union and how this pertains to the legal status of the Anti-Ballistic Missiles Treaty signed by the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1972. The author stresses that the issue confronting the president of the U.S. is one of policy more than law, and considers whether the president should build a National Missile Defense system compliant with the Treaty, renegotiate the Treaty, or withdraw from it; the latter two would required an executive order, and the president has the final voice in foreign policy issues.

Former Soviet Union, State succession

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The conference on the legal status of the ABM Treaty: the legal status of the ABM Treaty; alive, but under the usual political attacks

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This article analyzes the status of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed by the U.S. and Soviet Union in 1972, in consideration of the U.S. President's powers over foreign affairs under the Constitution and international law. Issues include the basic components of the ABM Treaty, the U.S. Senate's interpretation of it, the dissolution of the USSR and succession of the Russian Federation as party to the Treaty, the executive power of President Bush under the Constitution and international law to acknowledge Russia as successor to the Soviet Union and as a continuing state, the role of Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan in the ABM Treaty, American political disputes over the Treaty, and Executive power over foreign affairs as provided in the U.S. Consititution.

Political aspects, Constitutional law, Constitutional interpretation, Executive power

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