Small Arms Trade

2015 ◽  
pp. 109-121
Keyword(s):  
Small Arms ◽  
Arms Trade

scholarly journals Legacies of Violence

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 1991-2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne Bara
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Diffusion Effect ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
Arms Trade ◽  
At Home

Civil wars have a tendency to spread across borders. In several instances of conflict diffusion, however, conflicts spread well after their cessation at home. Whereas existing diffusion research has not attached much importance to this observation, I argue that these conflicts are instances of a broader pattern of postconflict diffusion. Wars are particularly prone to spread after termination because the end of fighting generates a surplus of weapons, combatants, and rebel leaders whose fortunes are tied to the continuation of violence. Some of these resources circulate throughout the region via the small arms trade and through transnational rebel networks, making this a time at which it should be easier for nonstate groups in the neighborhood to build a capable rebel army. The results from two complementary statistical tests on global conflict data provide strong support for such a postconflict diffusion effect.

scholarly journals The Legality of Small Arms Production

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Nicola Piccini
Keyword(s):  
Mass Production ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Trade Restrictions ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
Commercial Viability ◽  
Intended Purpose ◽  
Arms Trade

Officially, international control of small arms and light weapons (SALW) has made considerable advancements in recent years, most notably in the form of the 2014 Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Nonetheless, important systemic and structural deficiencies seem to persist, which prevent these control mechanisms from achieving their intended purpose. In an attempt to find an explanation for these shortcomings, this article traces back previous attempts aimed at combatting the illicit proliferation of SALW, by emphasising both their unbowed demand and the trade’s continuous commercial viability. The example of Bulgarian-made AK-47 machineguns underlines the picture of a system intentionally failing to prevent the weapons’ profitable export. It concludes that following the rise of globalisation, the privatisation of SALW manufacturing industries appears to have become the biggest impediment to effective control. Subsequently, it is argued that most anti-proliferation treaties are deliberately limited to a priori insufficient trade restrictions, as they lack any pre-emptive measures that target these weapons’ mass production in the first place. Once produced, SALW will find a buyer – no matter the existence of trade restrictions.

scholarly journals The Emergence of the Arms Trade Treaty as a Global Norm Cluster

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Belinda Kay Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
International Society ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
Arms Trade ◽  
Instrument Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

<p>The Arms Trade Treaty brings together a number of small arms control norms into one instrument and is a new initiative, which was instigated by state and NGO norm entrepreneurs. This thesis attempts to understand what has led to the emergence of these norms in the Arms Trade Treaty, in what will be termed a ‘cluster’ of small arms norms. Examining the small arms norms associated with the Arms Trade Treaty will explain their development and their likelihood of successfully being incorporated into this instrument. Analysis of the development of the norms related to the Arms Trade Treaty will explore the relationship between norms, their promoters and their opponents. This thesis will do this by providing detailed analysis of the development of specific norms in a series of case studies: control over arms brokering, transfers to non-state actors and civilian possession. It will place this development within the broader context of the ATT instrument and the international society in which it is emerging into. This thesis finds that power and powerful states have a significant role to play in the emergence of norms, in some cases despite the efforts of norm promoters. Norms were not able to emerge in their original form due to the influence of powerful states, which resulted in norms evolving in different directions or not emerging at all.</p>

Part II UN Core Conventions on Transnational Organised Crime, 10 The UN Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components, and Ammunition 2001

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fellmeth Aaron X
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Organised Crime ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
Trade Regulation ◽  
Arms Trade ◽  
Domestic Legislation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Un General Assembly

This chapter analyses the background and provisions of the Firearms Protocol. It begins by describing the problem of global trade in small firearms and light weapons to criminal organisations, and outlines international efforts before 2000 to subject the arms trade to formal and informal forms of international and regional regulation. It then summarizes the negotiating history of the Protocol and the provisions of the Protocol as finally adopted by the UN General Assembly, including the travaux préparatoires relating to the most controversial and important provisions. It then discusses the steps taken by the parties to the Protocol to implement it through domestic legislation and international cooperation. The chapter ends with a summary of the major global and regional developments in small arms trade regulation that have supplemented or built upon the Protocol, such as the UN Arms Trade Treaty.

Arms Control and Disarmament

2018 ◽  
pp. 382-395
Author(s):  
Keith Krause
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Land Mines ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Chemical Weapons Convention ◽  
Arms Trade ◽  
Peace And Security

This chapter evaluates the achievements and limitations of the United Nations (including the Conference on Disarmament) in the field of disarmament, emphasizing the UN’s role as part of broader efforts to control arms as a means to achieve international peace and security. It presents an overview of UN disarmament efforts and discusses specific cases where progress was achieved, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the Arms Trade Treaty, and efforts to tackle the problems of anti-personnel land mines and small arms and light weapons. Finally, it draws out the implications for international relations of the UN experience with formal multilateral arms control, disarmament and security-building processes by evaluating its role as a negotiating forum, a norm setter, an implementing agency, or an instrument of great power security governance.

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