POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

What determines the scope of conventional arms control (CAC) agreements in Europe? The crafting of an agreement can have important implications for the stability and trajectory of future relations while reflecting adversaries’ existing political and military relationship. Scholars, while agreeing that CAC agreements are intended to reduce the costs and impact of rivalries, and having articulated how arms control fit…

Reference · Wikidata

term for restrictions and regulations upon the development, storage, proliferation and usage of conventional weapons, and weapons of mass destruction

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Arms control is a term for international restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation and usage of small arms, conventional weapons, and weapons of mass destruction. Arms control is typically exercised through the use of diplomacy which seeks to impose such limitations upon consenting participants through international treaties and agreements, although it may also comprise efforts by a n…

Book · DOAB

In Libya and Yemen armed groups play a central role. Pervading weak and contested institutions, they have gradually brought their webs of survival, profit and governance under the state umbrella: warlords have become the new lords of the state. Armed groups control most of the energy revenues, critical infrastructure, smuggling and illicit trafficking. Their leaders are multifaceted: they are simultaneously military…

Full text · Open Library

"Oxfam, Amnesty International, and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) have together launched an international campaign calling for effective arms-controls to make people genuinely safer from the threat of armed violence."--Jacket.

Image · DPLA

Japan Gains Air Rights In Norh China.; Japan Gains Air Rights In China. By a Staff Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. SHANGHAI, Oct. 19-Announcement of an agreement on commercial air traffic between North China and Manchuria-which Japan had previously sought in vain since the Tangku protocol of 1933-is construed here as indicating a conciliatory attitude on China's part. The new air traffic accord appar…