THE Bush administration’s campaign to scupper a host of international treaties has just got personal.
This week in Geneva, the US will seek to stamp its authority on negotiations to limit global warming by replacing the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with a candidate it sees as less of a threat (see Too hot for head of climate panel). And next week in The Hague, it will mount a bid to sack the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the Brazilian Jose Bustani.
Since George Bush became president, the US has…
