Dangerous trade
Subtitle: arms exports, human rights, and international reputation
By: Jennifer L. Erickson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780231170963
Subjects: Human rights; Arms control; Law and legislation; Arms transfers; Export controls
Description: This title assesses the impact of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) approved by the UN in 2013 and which set legally binding standards to regulate global arms exports. It explores the reasons top arms-exporting democracies have put aside past sovereignty, security and economic worries in favour of humanitarian arms transfer controls, and follows the early effects of this about-face on export practice. It explains that this treaty reflects a growing concern that conventional arms play a significant role in perpetuating human rights violations, conflict and societal instability worldwide.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview; title: "Responsible" arms transfer policy and the politics of social reputation; title: History and contemporary trends in conventional arms export controls; title: Explaining commitment : international reputation and "responsible" arms transfer policy; title: Explaining compliance : domestic reputation and arms trade scandal; title: Conclusions and implications; title: Appendix A. multilateral conventional arms control in the twentieth amd twenty-first centuries; title: Appendix B. Data sources and coding; title: Appendix C. Full statistical results.