Polar Bear Treaty In 2007, the United States and Russia declared their intent to work together to save polar bears worldwide from extinction. Under the new treaty, which builds on the 1973 Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears between Russia, the U.S., Norway, Denmark and Canada, co...
The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations provides the legal framework for diplomatic relations and has been ratified by 187 nations as of 2011. Some nations have yet to ratify the treaty, while others recognize only some provisions. Individuals carrying a diplomatic passport as well as their ...
How does the Constitution deal with the issues raised by the Declaration of Independence? How does the War Powers Act hurt separation of powers? How did the U.S. violate the Treaty of Fort Laramie? How did the Mayflower Compact represent a government by consent? How did the Bill of Rights...
Pulling out of the bloc would be a relatively simple process, according to article 2205 of the NAFTA treaty: "A Party may withdraw from this Agreement six months after it provides written notice of withdrawal to the other Parties. If a Party withdraws, the Agreement shall remain in force fo...
The Indian government has always been a strong proponent of arbitration. India was amongst the 10 original signatories to the New York Convention and the fourth country to ratify it (in July 1960). To put India’s historic role in perspective, the USA ratified the Convention 10 years later ...
How was the Bill of Rights ratified? How did the Virginia Company protect the rights of Englishmen? How does the Declaration of Independence protect our rights? How does the Bill of Rights limit the power of the federal government? How did the plebeians obtain political rights?
Until a treaty banned it in 1972, it was legal to dump chemical weapons into the ocean. The United States, the former Soviet Union, Germany and other nations have sunk hundreds of thousands of tons of weapons. The weapons are still killing: Fishermen have died off the coast of Italy, and...
does not only utter but carries out threats to underline the contesting states’ resolve. Hence, we expect thatdissatisfied powers that have inside options to prevent undesired outcomes and no outside options to evade the negative effects of the institution after a (potential) withdrawal are more ...
The crime of aggression has a controversial history because of its proximity to States’ core national security interests, such that securing support for the [amending the Rome Statute] is likely to be challenging. Add to this the fact that any amendments would have to be ratified by seven-eig...
4 How to invest in the Philippines 2015 Peace initiatives On fostering peace efforts, the government has been hitting hard on terrorism as the Senate ratified several U.N. Conventions against terrorism. It has also made advances towards a negotiated peace on two fronts: the Moro Islamic ...