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The Fall and Rise of Peace Treaties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Tanisha M. Fazal*
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University of Notre Dame
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When the United States terminated its seven-year occupation of Japan in 1954, it did so having signed a peace treaty. By contrast, the United States tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade Hamid Karzai to sign a Bilateral Security Agreement to accompany the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Even if Karzai had agreed to sign, the draft agreement bears much stronger resemblance to an alliance than to a peace treaty; it does not reference hostilities between the United States and Afghanistan, nor does it include any version of the term “peace treaty.”

Type
Agora: The End of Treaties?
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

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