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America’s foreign policy elite increasingly came to perceive the US as a Gulliver tied down and oppressed by political midgets, with their laws of nations, treaties, and multilateral institutions.

Reductions in Germany’s armed forces and disavowal of weapons of mass destruction were written into the treaties that reunified Germany.

Moreover, the French mapping effort took place just a decade after Siam ceded a clutch of territories – much of today’s western Cambodia – to France, which was then perched above Indochina as the colonial master At that time, a vulnerable Siam was compelled to sign a host of unequal treaties with European powers in exchange for maintaining its independence.

The world benefits from entering into treaties and embracing cooperative arrangements.

The world has hundreds of treaties, institutions, and regimes for governing interstate behavior involving telecommunications, civil aviation, ocean dumping, trade, and even the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Often governments are part of these experiments – but they are not necessarily the drivers, and progress does not depend on signing treaties.

If anyone knows that actions speak louder than words, it is Putin, whose words often include transparent denials of documented wrongdoing, from meddling in the US election to violating treaties.

But, beyond formal treaties, normative constraints on states also include codes of conduct, conventional state practices, and widely shared expectations of proper behavior among a group (which create a common law).

Two treaties in the 1970s prohibited the production and stockpiling of such weapons, creating a cost not only for their use, but also for their very possession.

Nonetheless, both treaties have shaped how others perceive such actions.

In that sense, efforts to prevent cyber conflict cannot be like the nuclear arms control that developed during the Cold War, which involved elaborate treaties and detailed verification protocols.

Theirs is a model that constrains national sovereignty by binding states to shared norms, conventions, and treaties.

The Nazis forced treaties on weaker neighbors and seized others, then sought to depopulate Slavic lands to make way for Teutonic settlers.

Trump’s Jerusalem declaration is the latest manifestation of the unlikely president’s quest for domestic legitimacy, which has made him almost obsessed with fulfilling his extreme and self-defeating campaign promises, including withdrawal from or renegotiation of major international treaties such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris climate agreement.

Furthermore, because governments did not trust one another, they insisted on including in treaties what would normally belong in ordinary legislation.

But that position is difficult to reconcile with Germany’s inability to call into question the euro or European structures and treaties.

I’d like to lay out a simple path to addressing (not resolving) these security problems, one that does not require agreement among all governments (or people) on what really constitutes a crime, much less a global police force or unenforceable global treaties.

At the same time, the US has every right to insist on fair access for its multinational corporations to operate in foreign markets; over the years, more than 3,000 bilateral investment treaties have been signed around the world to guarantee such equitable treatment.

But he says he will negotiate better bilateral treaties with those and other countries.

And, indeed, the language of a larger political union was embedded in Europe’s treaties, to be interpreted by the European Court of Justice and subsequent generations of European decision-makers in ways that supported the construction of a common European polity and identity, as well as a unified economy.

Are 19th century treaties dealing with territory so clearly superior to considerations of basic human rights?

Though the UN has been working on disarmament since 1946, two treaties negotiated under UN auspices are now commanding the world’s attention.

Universal membership in multilateral treaties is key, as are regional nuclear-weapon-free zones and a new treaty on fissile materials.

These pillars support two classes of sovereignty: American sovereignty, which takes precedence over international treaties and obligations; and the sovereignty of all other states.

But sorting out the relationship between EU members within and outside the eurozone can be done in a fairly short time without new treaties; indeed, progress has already been made on this front.

Since its invasion of Crimea a year ago, Russia has continuously and gravely violated the United Nations Charter, numerous international treaties, and international humanitarian norms.

Another would be to work from treaties involving fewer actors to build broader agreements.

But its fundamental position is that treaties such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights are not self-executing.

We are better targeting our external assistance and capacity building programs, and we are ready to use our trade and economic muscle, when necessary, by demanding counter-terrorism clauses in bilateral treaties.

Unfortunately for him, Greece does not want to exit, and it cannot be forced to do so under the treaties governing the European Union.

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