Thomas Bruce Millar - Current International Treaties

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Volume 6

CURRENT INTERNATIONAL TREATIES

Edited by
T.B. Millar
With
Robin Ward

First published in 1984 by Croom Helm Ltd

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CURRENT INTERNATIONAL TREATIES

Edited by
T.B. MILLAR
with Robin Ward
Australian National University
CANBERRA

1984 T.B. Millar and Robin Ward
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Current international treaties.
1. Treaties
I. Millar, T.B. II. Ward, Robin
341'.0265 JX171
ISBN 0-7099-1758-9

Printed and bound in Great Britain
by Billing & Sons Limited, Worcester.

This book is an attempt to bring together in a single volume the texts of the main bilateral and multilateral treaties which form the legal skeleton of so much of current international relations, together with a commentary touching on the general and particular situations to which the treaties may apply.

From the necessities of space, the book is selective in coverage, almost all the treaties are abbreviated, and the commentary is limited to essentials. The total collection of treaties runs to thousands of volumes, and in the case of some individual treaties, the full series of documents requires several volumes. A single compendium thus cannot possibly do justice to so many agreements. All it can do is to give the principal original texts of a few main treaties and indicate the changes that have occurred. Signatories to instruments in this volume are given in Appendices A and B.

Criteria for selection of the documents have been subjective and arbitrary and based on an assessment of current importance. One document on Strategic Arms Limitation, the SALT II agreement, although never ratified is included because the USSR and the USA have both been acting substantially as though it were in effect. A few others (such as the 1950 Sino-Soviet treaty) which have lapsed recently are included because they still form part of international discourse.

The treaties are grouped broadly by subject, by the principal party, and by chronology. This inevitably produces ambiguities. Some treaties span several areas of co-operation, and for grouping purposes a judgment is made as to which area is the most significant.

The project began in 1980 when Robert O'Neill, then Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University and now Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, invited me to contribute a paper on the current importance of military alliances, to a Centre conference on 'New Directions in Strategic Thinking', the papers of which were subsequently published by George Allen & Unwin in a book of that title. This paper was expanded into a longer essay to which were attached thirty alliance texts, and published as a limited edition 'Canberra Study in World Affairs' by the Department of International Relations at ANU under the title Contemporary Alliances. The present volume grew from that study, a large and leafy oak from the original acorn and sapling, and including much that is not of a directly military nature. Indirectly, all international agreements may have an effecteven a decisive effecton the security of member states.

Given the difficulty of obtaining reliable copies of each instrument in this volume the procedure followed was to use, in the majority of cases, the United Nations Treaty Series, then the Australian Treaty Series and British and Foreign State Papers. For more recent treaties International Legal Materials was used, with sources for these instruments recorded. Some recent USSR bilateral treaties have been taken from the Current Digest of the Soviet Press and are not authorized translations. The text in each case was followed exactly, although style was altered occasionally, the only exception to this being in a few cases where there were obvious misprints. This means that different spelling conventions have been used throughout the book, depending on the source of the instrument.

I am grateful to the many institutions and individuals who helped provide documents, information, or comment for this book. The original alliance texts were collected together by Cheryl Hannah and Mara Moustafine. Betty Macfarlane began the wider collection. This was completed (often only after painstaking research), collated, checked and indexed by Robin Ward, who also obtained much of the material for the commentary, on which Paul Dibb made helpful suggestions. The editorial material was typed by Billie Dalrymple, and the whole book set on the composer by Helen Scanes.

T.B. Millar.

Canberra
1983