A Georgetown Law professor named David Koplow has drafted what he calls a Nuclear Kellogg-Briand Pact. In an article proposing it, Koplow does something all too rare, he recognizes some of the ...

The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war and was signed by almost every country in the world. He explained how countries commonly used war to settle differences and accomplish foreign policy goals ...

Description. Professor Oona Hathaway discussed the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and how it outlawed war. She described how nations struggled to enforce this pact when Japan invaded Manchuria.

The U.S. Senate voted on January 15, 1929 to approve the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Few senators had any illusions that the treaty would change the rough-and-tumble conduct of world politics.

US Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg signs The Kellogg Briand Pact (or Pact of Paris) for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy on August 27, 1928 at the ministry of foreign ...

Almost since the day of its signing on August 27, 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact—formally known as the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy—has been considered a ...

Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro, The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (Simon and Schuster, 2017). In the long list of diplomatic failures, the Kellogg-Briand Pact ...

A South Korean border guard posts a letter. (Courtesy Reuters) I recently wrote a post on the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the 1928 treaty that “outlawed” war. The post prompted Inger Weibust to ask ...

The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war had been signed in August 1928 and ratified by President Coolidge and the US Senate in January 1929. It went into effect some six months later, on this day in ...

The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war has served as a monument to the folly of well-meaning but naive politicians. Richard Aldous reviews “The Internationalists” by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott ...