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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Arms transfers"”.
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Welcome to the Club: IGO Socialization and Dyadic Arms Transfers
… the effect of shared IGO memberships on dyadic arms transfers. IGO socialization is one of many proposed causal mechanisms by which IGO memberships might reduce interstate conflict. This thesis argues that the institutional socialization hypothesis (ISH), which asserts that shared IGO …
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Policy Jolts in U.S. Arms Transfers: The Post Cold War Security Environment
… research addresses the subject of conventional arms transfers in the Post Cold War Era. ("Conventional arms" herein are defined as high cost, state-of-the-art weapons systems in aerospace, land vehicles, missiles and naval vessels.") The rapid and startling changes in the international political …
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Actors & Allies: Foreign Policy & the Strategic Value of Satisfaction— Examining Military Arms Transfers as a Measure of Trust
… a trust measure based on the quality of arms transfers between two nations. Metrics reflecting satisfaction and trust (security cooperation) are not generally available, and those in use typically fail to capture variations in these critical elements. Noting the absence of an acceptable …
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United States interests in China: a post-normalization analysis.
… Special attention is paid to the problems of arms transfers from the U.S. in the light of their probable effects on China's future and on U.S. diplomatic relations in other parts of the Asian region.
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SPARE PARTS: SMALL ARMS PROLIFERATION AND THE DILEMMA OF GOVERNANCE, AUTHORITY, AND FOREIGN MILITARY ASSISTANCE
… thesis examines the international state-directed arms trade in South Asia following WWII, and describes how attempts to limit the arms flow into the region were subverted by less constrained suppliers and by the superpowers themselves. Donor states distributed surplus items to less industrialized …
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Weapons trade, human rights and international law
… new rules and regulatory practices, to prevent arms transfers from being used to contribute to serious violations of international human rights law (IHRL) and international humanitarian law (IHL). The key rules, and specific measures for their implementation, have slowly been set out in an …
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Russian Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Priorities and Effectiveness
… foreign policy in the region: Islamic terrorism, arms transfers, natural resources, influence over former Soviet Spaces, general trade, and great power status. With rare exceptions, these principles are shown to guide Russian foreign policy in the Middle East since 2000.</p> <p>The paper continues …
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Controlling the circulation of small arms in international law
… have shown an influence on the conventional arms control. A series of negotiations to control the trade of small arms, in particular the diplomatic conference on the arms trade treaty in July 2012, provide some evidence of this increasing influence. The negative impact of the widespread …