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Soviet Initiatives: U.S. Responses—New Opportunities for Reviving the United Nations System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Thomas M. Franck
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This issue of our Journal highlights “new thinking” by two leading Soviet legal scholars. That, however, is only part of a larger transformation of the climate in which international law and institutions operate. Nowhere has this transformation been more remarkable than at the United Nations.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 83 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 531 - 543
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1989

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References

1 T. Franck, Nation Against Nation 15 (1985).

2 See SC Res. 83 (June 27, 1950); SC Res. 84 (July 7, 1950).

3 Review of the Efficiency of the Administrative and Financial Functioning of the United Nations, UN Doc. A/43/286 (1988).

4 See generally D. P. Moynihan, A Dangerous Place (1978).

5 UN Doc. A/43/629, Annex (1988).

6 See SC Res. 598 (July 20, 1987), reprinted in 26 ILM 1479 (1987).

7 See N.Y. Times, Dec. 14, 1988, at A14, col. 4 (chronology of political history of Angola and South West Africa); id., Nov. 11, 1988, at All, col. 6 (Soviet Union offers to be directly involved in negotiations). See also SC Res. 629 (Jan. 16, 1989); SC Res. 431 (July 27, 1978).

8 The 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; the 1949 Convention on the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others; the 1952 Convention on the Political Rights of Women; the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; and the 1984 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The acceptance applies prospectively to “cases which may arise after the date” of acceptance.