Introducing the special section on ‘arms export controls during war and armed conflict’
Journal: Global Policy
Year: 2023

The war in Ukraine has brought questions of arms exports, military aid and military spending to the forefront of western foreign policy agendas. Western state responses to Russia's invasion have accelerated trends that started after its 2014 annexation of Crimea. Since then, US military aid to Ukraine has increased to the point where it is now the largest single recipient of US security assistance in 2022 (Yousif, 2022), the EU has committed €3.1 billion under the European Peace Facility (Europe