Dallas Public Library

Unperfected treaties of the United States of America, 1776-1976, edited and annotated by Christian L. Wiktor

These volumes make accessible international agreements concluded by the United States from 1776 which for one reason or another failed to enter into force for the United States. Access to the text of unperfected treaties has been very difficult and this series is intended to resolve that difficulty. See the Introduction for further explanation."The treaties to which a state becomes a party are important not only to an understanding of its diplomatic history and of its international relations but also to an awareness of the pattern of its obligations and of its position on questions of international law. The other side of the coin is the treaties which a state has concluded but which have not entered into force. These, like perfected treaties are of importance to the historian, the political scientist, the specialist in international relations, and the international lawyer"--PrefaceSometimetimes treaties which appear to be dead are only dormant. A dramatic example of that was the 1975 ratification of the Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous, or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare of 1925--a full half century after the treaty had been drawn up with the participation of the United States (from the preface).DPL has only volumes 1-6

9780379005899

76002647

(amicus)000000636118

can:770194222

9 volumes, 26 cm.

(OCoLC)ocm02020763 (OCoLC)2020763