The UN Arms Trade Treaty: arms export controls, the human security agenda and the lessons of history

Bromley, Mark; Cooper, Neil; Holtom, Paul

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2346.2012.01117.x

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“…2). If nothing else, this case exemplifies the commonly expressed criticism that the heterogeneous composition may hamper bargaining and consensus-building among the participating states (Beck, 2000;Bromley et al, 2012). 5 Yet, as Craft and Grillot (1999) point out, already during the initiation, Wassenaar differed significantly from the COCOM not only in terms of the (a) heterogeneous composition of the state members, but also with respect to (b) the lack of explicitly stated targets, (c) the expansion of coverage to conventional weapons, (d) and the omission of a mechanism for multilateral oversight.…”

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Updating the Wassenaar debate once again: Surveillance, intrusion software, and ambiguity

Ruohonen¹,

Kimppa

2019

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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This paper analyzes a recent debate on regulating cyber weapons through multilateral export controls. The background relates to the amending of the international Wassenaar Arrangement with offensive cyber security technologies known as intrusion software. Implicitly, such software is related to previously unregulated software vulnerabilities and exploits, which also make the ongoing debate particularly relevant. By placing the debate into a historical context, the paper reveals interesting historical parallels, elaborates the political background, and underlines many ambiguity problems related to rigorous definitions for cyber weapons. Many difficult problems remaining for framing offensive security tools with multilateral export controls are also pointed out.

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Section: Historical Genesismentioning

confidence: 70%

Updating the Wassenaar debate once again: Surveillance, intrusion software, and ambiguity

Ruohonen¹,

Kimppa

2019

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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“…Such framing greatly contributed to the Treaty's legitimacy and enhanced the growing understanding between the negotiating parties that even imperfect agreement is better than a lack thereof. Additionally, NGOs were instrumental in setting the agenda of the negotiations, putting forward transparency and human security norms (Bromley et al ., ).…”

Section: Explaining Eu Effectiveness In the Arms Trade Treaty Negotiamentioning

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“…With the exception of one study (Depauw, ), no systematic attempt has so far been undertaken to evaluate the EU's involvement in the ATT negotiations. Existing research that addresses the EU and the ATT tend to focus either on some EU Member States (Bromley et al ., ) or on the EU's internal export control policy and its implications for the emerging arms trade regime (Fiott and Prizeman, ).…”

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ExplainingEUEffectiveness in Multilateral Institutions: The Case of the Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations

Romanyshyn

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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This article examines the EU's participation in multilateral institutions on the example of the UN Arms Trade Treaty. The central question of the study is to what extent and under what conditions the EU can be seen as an effective actor in multilateral security negotiations. It is argued that overall the EU was an effective player during the multilateral negotiations on the ATT, but the degree of its effectiveness varies along different dimensions. The EU was rather successful in the achievement of its goals and in maintaining external cohesion, but it scored relatively low in its efforts to commit the key stakeholders to sign up to the ATT. The EU's internal export control policy, together with the high level of institutional co‐ordination and Member States' interest convergence, facilitated the EU's effectiveness in the ATT negotiations, whereas the international context proved to be the major constraining factor.

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“…Drawing on a longer tradition of great power arms control treaties (Marriott, ; Bromley et al., , pp. 1032–1033), during the Cold War, arms discussions were dominated by the superpowers and focused on limitation, control and non‐proliferation of large strategic weapons systems (particularly nuclear weapons), rather than disarmament (Karp, , pp.…”

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The Humanitarian Initiative on Nuclear Weapons: An Introduction to Global Policy's Special Section

Bolton

Minor

2016

Global Policy

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The dominant paradigm of international relations theory has long seen influence over nuclear arsenals as the preserve of presidents, premiers and generals of the world's great powers, not underfunded activists, feminist campaigners, radical nuns or even diplomats of small states. The approach of this special section could not be more different. In fact, we have intentionally curated a collection of articles that try to ‘de‐center’ the academic conversation about nuclear weapons. The inspiration for our approach comes from the Humanitarian Initiative on Nuclear Weapons, which since its emergence after the 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non‐Proliferation Treaty, has dramatically reshaped the diplomatic discussions on nuclear disarmament, led by small states and middle powers. The shift in discourse has been accelerated by revitalized civil society action, represented by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a global NGO coalition, as well as renewed calls for disarmament from religious leaders – most notably Pope Francis. This special section, written from the perspective of scholars and practitioners associated with the Humanitarian Initiative, examines its dimensions and its potential impact on global policy making.

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The UN Arms Trade Treaty: arms export controls, the human security agenda and the lessons of history

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Updating the Wassenaar debate once again: Surveillance, intrusion software, and ambiguity

Updating the Wassenaar debate once again: Surveillance, intrusion software, and ambiguity

ExplainingEUEffectiveness in Multilateral Institutions: The Case of the Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations

The Humanitarian Initiative on Nuclear Weapons: An Introduction to Global Policy's Special Section

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