Law and the arms trade : weapons, blood and rules / Laurence Lustgarten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lustgarten, Laurence, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arms transfers--Law and legislation.

Arms transfers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Hart Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

"This ground-breaking book offers an extensive legal analysis-grounded in public law, EU, and international law-of arms trade regulation, integrated with insights drawn from international relations. The sale of weapons and related technologies is, globally, one of the most politically controversial and ethically contentious forms of commerce. Intimately connected with sustaining repressive governments and violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, arms exports are also a central element in the economic and strategic policies of the governments of all large industrial states. They have also been the source of abundant corruption, and of serious challenges to the norms and effectiveness of constitutional accountability in democratic states. On paper, the arms trade is heavily regulated: national legislation and international treaties are in place which purport to prohibit certain transactions and limit others. Yet despite its importance, legal and international relations scholarship on the subject has been surprisingly limited. This book fills this gap in the literature by examining and comparing the export control regimes of eight leading nations - the USA, Russia, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, China, and India - with chapters contributed by leading experts in the field of law and international relations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The arms trade : a critical introduction

Governing arms transfers : the praxis of law and the evaluation of risk

Fragile underpinning : the limits of EU Rules

The EU criteria : a critical examination

The UK : institutional and legal innovation, dangerous dependency

The German control regime on arms exports

Arms exports in France

Sweden's arms export controls : balancing support and restraint

The United States and arms exports

Russian arms exports

China as an arms exporter : the strategic contours of China's arms transfers

India and arms exports

Arms transfer regulation beyond national borders

The arms trade treaty : a measure of global governance

Future directions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781509922307

150992230X

9781509922314

1509922318

9781509922321

1509922326

OCLC:

1150842073