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A Failure of Presidential Leadership

Cambridge University Press eBooksPublished 29 September 1994
William A. Nitze
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Abstract

The framework convention on climate change was signed by 154 countries at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. It represents—simultaneously—a success for United States diplomacy, a long-standing tension in American foreign policy, and a failure of presidential leadership.

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Social Sciences