Authorized Transfers

UN Comtrade, National Arms Export Reports, and Other Sources

Small Arms Survey Publications

Dreyfus, Pablo and Anna Khakee with Anne-Kathrin Glatz. 2006. An Uphill Battle: Understanding Small Arms and Light Weapons in Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business.

Gabelnick, Tamar, Haug, Maria; and Lumpe, Lora. 2006. A Guide to the US Small Arms Market, Industry, and Exports, 1998-2004. Occasional Paper No. 19.

Glatz, Anne-Kathrin. 2006. Buying the Bullet: Authorized Small Arms Ammunition Transfers. In Stéphanie Pézard and Holger Anders (Eds.), Targeting Ammunition: A Primer.

Khakee, Anna. 2005. Reaching for the Big Picture: An Update on Small Arms Transfers in Small Arms Survey 2005: Weapons at War.

Khakee, Anna. 2004. Back to the Sources: International Small Arms Transfers in Small Arms Survey 2004: Rights at Risk.

Marsh, Nicholas and Aron Karp. 2003. Insights and Mysteries: Global Small Arms Transfers in Small Arms Survey 2003: Development Denied.

Pyadushkin, Maxim with Maria Haug and Anna Matveeva. 2003. Beyond the Kalashnikov: Small Arms Production, Exports, and Stockpiles in the Russian Federation. Occasional Paper No. 10.

Haug, Maria, Martin Langvandslien, Lora Lumpe, and Nic Marsh. 2002. Shining a Light on Small Arms Exports: The Record of State Transparency. Occasional Paper No. 4.

Demetriou, Spyros, Robert Muggah, and Ian Biddle. 2002. Small Arms Availability, Trade and Impacts in the Republic of Congo. Special Report No. 2.

Haug, Maria. 2002. The Legal-Illicit Link: Global Small Arms Transfers in Small Arms Survey 2002: Counting the Human Cost.

Haug, Maria. 2001. A Thriving Trade: Global Legal Small Arms Transfers in Small Arms Survey 2001: Profiling the Problem.


Other Articles, Books, and Journals

Schroeder, Matthew, and Rachel Stohl. 2006. ‘Small Arms, Large Problem: The International Threat of Small Arms Proliferation and Misuse'. Arms Control Today . June.

Stohl, Rachel; Schroeder, Matt; Smith, Dan. 2007. The Small Arms Trade: A Beginner's Guide. Oxford : Oneworld Publications.

Dreyfus, Pablo, Benjamin Lessing, and Júlio César Purcena. 2005. The Brazilian Small Arms Industry: Legal Production and Trade. In Rubem César Fernandes (Ed.) Brazil: The Arms and the Victims. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras/ISER.


Further Resources

United Nations, Statistics Division. United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade).
Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers, (NISAT) Database.
National Arms Export Reports
UN (United Nations). 2006. United Nations Register of Conventional Arms.
United States, Department of State. World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers.
United States, Congressional Research Service. Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations.
 
 
 

Transparency

Small Arms Survey Publications

Glatz, Anne-Kathrin and Lumpe, Lora. 2007. Probing the Grey Area: Irresponsible Small Arms Transfers in Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns in the City.

Dreyfus, Pablo and Anna Khakee with Anne-Kathrin Glatz. 2006. An Uphill Battle: Understanding Small Arms and Light Weapons in Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business.

Khakee, Anna. 2005. Reaching for the Big Picture: An Update on Small Arms Transfers in Small Arms Survey 2005: Weapons at War.

Khakee, Anna. 2004. Back to the Sources: International Small Arms Transfers in Small Arms Survey 2004: Rights at Risk.

Small Arms Trade Transparency Barometer 2007

Small Arms Trade Transparency Barometer 2006

Small Arms Trade Transparency Barometer 2005

Small Arms Trade Transparency Barometer 2004

Haug, Maria, Martin Langvandslien, Lora Lumpe, and Nic Marsh. 2002. Shining a Light on Small Arms Exports: The Record of State Transparency. Occasional Paper No. 4.


Other Articles, Books, and Journals

Waltz, Susan. 2007. US Small Arms Policy: Having It Both Ways. World Policy Journal. Summer, pp. 67-80.

Kytömäki, Elli and Valerie Yankey-Wayne. 2006. Five Years of Implementing the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons: Regional Analysis of National Reports. Geneva: United Nations.

Isbister, Roy and Elizabeth Kirkham. 2005. An Independent Audit of the UK Government Reports on Strategic Export Controls for 2003 and the First Half of 2004. London: Saferworld.

Schroeder, Matt. 2005. Transparency and accountability in arms export systems: the United States as a case study. Disarmament Forum.

Bauer, Sibylle and Mark Bromley. 2004. The European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports: Improving the Annual Report. SIPRI Policy Paper No. 8. Stockholm: SIPRI.

Center for the Study of Democracy / Saferworld. 2004. Weapons Under Scrutiny: Implementing Arms Export Controls and Combating Small Arms Proliferation in Bulgaria. Sofia: Center for the Study of Democracy / Saferworld.