The Survival of the Secret Treaty: Publicity, Secrecy, and Legality in the International Order
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Donaldson, Megan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6360-0308
Abstract
This article offers the first detailed history of the norm of treaty publication as it has evolved over the last century. Drawing on both public debates and archives of foreign ministries, it traces how, and why, secret treaties have persisted, even in liberal democracies. It challenges assumptions of ever-greater transparency over time, and complicates the associations made—by interwar reformers and international lawyers today—between the norm of treaty publication and ideals of legality in the international order.
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treaty, secrecy, publicity, transparency
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American Journal of International Law
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0002-9300
2161-7953
2161-7953
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111
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American Society of International Law