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Sovereign Equality under the Chemical Weapons Convention: Doughnuts over Holes

Authors :
James D. Fry
Source :
Journal of Conflict and Security Law. 15:45-63
Publication Year :
2010
Publisher :
Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010.

Abstract

By the very nature of treaties, States give up some of their sovereignty in order to achieve a common, desired objective between the parties to the treaty. When it comes to the Chemical Weapons Convention, however, commentators overly emphasize its impact on State sovereignty and equality without acknowledging the ways that it actually preserves State sovereignty and equality, arguably better than other multilateral treaties. This article seeks to bring balance to the debate by focussing on these relatively innovative and much overlooked provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention, with the hope of encouraging the last seven non-member States to join and the rest to have even greater confidence in this most important of disarmament regimes.

Details

ISSN :
14677962 and 14677954
Volume :
15
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of Conflict and Security Law
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........d983a9886e841d60893a3bc8920bb463
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1093/jcsl/krq005