1. Introduction At the end of the twentieth century it appeared that we stood on the threshold of a new era in the legalization of international relations, one characterized by the exponentially increasing judicialization of dispute resolution.[1] States widely accepted the jurisdiction of international tribunals of various kinds to oversee their compliance with substantive legal...

1. Good faith and nuclear arms control The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) provides that ‘[every] treaty in force is binding upon the parties to it and must be performed by them in good faith’.[1] In other words, the principle of good faith ‘forms an integral part of the rule pacta sunt...