ABSTRACT
Even though impacts generated by the widespread availability and ongoing use of small arms and light weapons have not reached a magnitude sufficient to radically reorder contemporary world affairs, awareness of the nature and extent of these impacts has compelled some international actors to take decisive action. Damien Rogers examines how the international community has responded to the challenge of controlling small arms and light weapons since the early 1990s. Using a postinternationalist analytic framework, he specifically focuses on the maturing relationships between particular actors of world affairs and the nascent interconnectivity between their strategies for, and approaches toward, controlling these weapons. Furthermore, the book identifies ways in which the captains of small arms industry, arms brokers and chief users of these weapons are able to mitigate, resist or elude the intended effects of those responses.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |24 pages
Introduction
part |49 pages
Theory, Politics, and Armed Violence
chapter |23 pages
Postinternationalism
chapter |23 pages
Small Arms Impacts
part |124 pages
Composing Small Arms Control
chapter |23 pages
Researchers
chapter |26 pages
Intergovernmental Organizations
chapter |21 pages
United Nations Security Council
chapter |24 pages
Governments
chapter |26 pages
Civil Society Organizations
part |50 pages
Eroding Small Arms Control