Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1992
Abstract
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 unless some creative, mutually acceptable solutions can quickly be developed, this battle, too, threatens to become bitter, protracted, and ultimately destructive for the coordinated and consistent conduct of United States national security efforts in an era of profound global instability.
Publication Citation
59 U. Chi. L. Rev. 981
Scholarly Commons Citation
Koplow, David A., "When Is an Amendment Not an Amendment? Modification of Arms Control Agreements Without the Senate" (1992). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1736.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1736