Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
The Hoover-Stimson Doctrine or Stimson Doctrine was the official foreign policy declaration of the United States on the occasion of the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in northeast China , which was made on January 7, 1932 against both states. In a resolution of the League of Nations assembly of March 11, 1932, which, however, was not binding under international law , it was formulated as a non-recognition obligation.
This doctrine stated that the US would never recognize territorial extensions or treaties that were in contravention of the Briand-Kellogg Pact of 1928, i.e. through military force.
The declaration was named after the American President Herbert Hoover and his Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson , who thus adhered to the foreign policy line of Presidents Coolidge and Harding even during the Depression . Nevertheless, they were said to have greater flexibility and an increased sense of reality .
The conception of the Stimson Doctrine has largely gained acceptance, at least in the legal system of Western states.
literature
- Heiko Meiertöns: The Doctrines of American Security Policy. Evaluation of international law and its influence on international law. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1904-X .
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr: The Crisis of Old Order 1919–1933 , Boston 1957.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Oliver Dörr, The incorporation as a fact of state succession , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-428-08552-3 , p. 75 ; Wilhelm Wengler , Völkerrecht , Vol. I, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1964, p. 567 f., Note 3 .