Description
This ground-breaking book offers an extensive legal analysis-grounded in public, 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 - USA, Russia, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, China, and India - with chapters contributed by leading experts in the field of law and international relations.
Author: Laurence Lustgarten
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 08/12/2021
Pages: 504
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.01d
ISBN13: 9781509943500
ISBN10: 1509943501
BISAC Categories:
- Law | International
- Law | Military
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 - USA, Russia, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, China, and India - with chapters contributed by leading experts in the field of law and international relations.
Author: Laurence Lustgarten
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 08/12/2021
Pages: 504
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.01d
ISBN13: 9781509943500
ISBN10: 1509943501
BISAC Categories:
- Law | International
- Law | Military
About the Author
Laurence Lustgarten is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford University.