International Transfer Controls

General

Small Arms Survey Publications

McDonald, Glenn. 2005. Locking onto Target: Light Weapons Control Measures in Small Arms Survey 2005: Weapons at War.

McDonald, Glenn. 2002. Strengthening Controls: Small Arms Measures in Small Arms Survey 2002: Counting the Human Cost.


Other Articles, Books, and Journals

Waltz, Susan. 2007. 'U.S. Small Arms Policy: Having It Both Ways.' World Policy Journal. Summer, pp. 67–80.

Project Ploughshares. 2007. Towards Global Standards: Regional Experiences in Small Arms Transfer Controls. Edited Papers from an International Seminar. Waterloo, Canada. 8 February.

Biting the Bullet / Small Arms Consultative Group Process. 2006. Developing International Norms to Restrict SALW Transfers to Non-State Actors.

Biting the Bullet / Small Arms Consultative Group Process. 2006. Developing International Guidelines for National Controls on SALW Transfers.

Control Arms. 2006. 2. Arms withouth borders: Why a globalized trade needs globalized controls. 2 October.

Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. 2005. Missing Pieces: Directions for Reducing Gun Violence through the UN Process on Small Arms Control. Geneva: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.

United Kingdom. 2003. Implementing the UN Programme of Action: Strengthening Export Controls. Lancaster House Conference. Chairman's Summary. London, 14-15 January.

OSCE. 2003. Handbook of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons. Vienna: Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Crowley, Michael, Roy Isbister, and Sarah Meek. 2002. Building Comprehensive Controls on Small Arms Manufacturing, Transfer and End-Use. Biting the Bullet. Briefing 13. London and Washington, D.C.: BASIC, International Alert, and Saferworld.

Gillard, Emanuela. 2000. "What's Legal? What's Illegal?" In Lora Lumpe (Ed.) Running Guns: The Global Black Market in Small Arms. London: Zed Books.


Further Resources

Amnesty International, IANSA, Oxfam: Control Arms campaign
Arias Foundation
Centre de Documentation et de Recherche sur la Paix et les Conflits (CDRPC), L'Observatoire des transferts d'armements
Federation of American Scientists: Arms Sales Monitoring Project
Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers
SIPRI: Export Controls Project
United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs (UN DDA)
 
 
 

Arms Embargoes

Small Arms Survey Publications

McDonald, Glenn. 2004. Under the Spotlight: Monitoring Implementation of Small Arms Measures in Small Arms Survey 2004: Rights at Risk.


Other Articles, Books, and Journals

Vines, Alex. 2003. Monitoring UN Sanctions in Africa: The Role of Panels of Experts. In VERTIC, Verification Yearbook 2003. London.

Wallensteen, Peter, Carina Staibano, and Mikael Eriksson (Eds.) 2003. Making Targeted Sanctions Effective: Guidelines for the Implementation of UN Policy Options. Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala University.

Kirkham, Elizabeth and Catherine Flew. 2003. Strengthening Embargoes and Enhancing Human Security. Biting the Bullet. Briefing 17. London: International Alert, Saferworld, and University of Bradford.

Cortright, David and George Lopez. 2002. Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner.

Brzoska, Michael, ed. 2001. Design and Implementation of Arms Embargoes and Travel and Aviation-Related Sanctions: Results of the 'Bonn-Berlin Process' . Bonn: BICC.

Cortright, David and George Lopez. 2000. The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner.


Further Resources

Bonn-Berlin Process
Special Program on the Implementation of Targeted Sanctions (SPITS)
UN Security Council Sanctions Committees