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Responding to criticism: Autocratic states and treaty reservation withdrawal

Kelebogile Zvobgo,
Zvobgo
Kelebogile Zvobgo Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
Megan Shannon, and
MS
Megan Shannon Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Political Science - University of Colorado Boulder
Cody D. Eldredge
CDE
Cody D. Eldredge Associate Professor of Political Science - Oakland University

January 20, 2026

(From L) NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Britain's Defence Secretary John Healey , Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and Ukraine's Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov addresses the media during a press conference on the sidelines of a defence ministers meeting of The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, on February 12, 2026.
(From L) NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Britain's Defence Secretary John Healey , Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and Ukraine's Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov addresses the media during a press conference on the sidelines of a defence ministers meeting of The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, on February 12, 2026. (John Thys/AFP via Getty Images)
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