This incisive book explores the limits of international law through arms control and disarmament treaties. Carmen Chas critically engages with literature on disarmament and classical realist analysis, bridging the divide between international law and...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian & Criminal Law
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192868671)
Despite the establishment of UN embargoes, the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), and the EU Common Position, arms export regulation suffers from significant legal and practical limitations. This book critically evaluates the existing body of Arms Trade Law,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Exeter Press, ISBN-13: 9781804131268)
This volume provides an analytical framework for the international arms-transfer system and offers important insights into that system as it is being transformed by the development of the defence-industrial landscape. Breaking new ground by situating...Lasīt vairāk
From the Pulitzer Prizewinning journalists who uncovered the Panama Papers, a gripping, real-life thriller following the authors attempt to uncover the truth about one of the worlds most wanted men. Karl Lee, alias Li Fangwei,...Lasīt vairāk
Peace activists uncover the truth of the most destructive business in the world We are seeing injustices caused by war and occupation unfold in real-time via social media, and we are speaking out in our millions against...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jan-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009297523)
This is a study of Britains most prominent armaments firms and of their relationships with the British Government and foreign states from 1855 to 1955. It reveals how the firms developed and utilized independent domestic strategies and foreign polic...Lasīt vairāk
Ninety miles from the US coast of Florida, dictators and zealots ruled the island of Cuba for hundreds of years. The last half of the 20th century saw dictator Fulgencio Batista deposed by rebel leader Fidel Castro and his followers. Proclaiming hims...Lasīt vairāk
During the Cold War, communist Czechoslovakia was one of the largest arms exporters to the Middle East among the Soviet Bloc countries. The first volume of this mini-series describes the history of arms export from Czechoslovakia to the Third World s...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Aug-2021, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781800857148)
This book examines the relationship between the private naval armaments industry, businessmen and the British government defence planners between the wars. It reassesses the concept of the Military-Industrial Complex through the impact of disarmament...Lasīt vairāk
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman arms industry was self-sufficient. But from the 1880s to World War I, German arms companies held a monopoly position in the Ottoman arms market. How did Germany manage to conquer what had unt...Lasīt vairāk
Jonathan A. Grant analyzes the connections between private business, disarmament, and re-armament as they affected arms procurement in Eastern Europe, 19191939. He sheds new light on the international history of the interwar period and expands the d...Lasīt vairāk
This comprehensive Research Handbook examines the key drivers of the arms trade, mapping the main trends in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. It also explores the principal defence markets internationally, including the US, Chi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Oct-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253049995)
The story of the battlefield in the 20th century were dominated by a handful of developments. Foremost of these was the introduction and refinement of tanks. In Tank Warfare, prominent military historian Jeremy Black offers a comprehensive global ac...Lasīt vairāk
No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens,...Lasīt vairāk
Technology offsets, a nonconventional international trade-financing tool, is used by governments (buyers) to obtain industrial and technological benefits from companies (sellers) as part of international procurement. Offsets deals involve billions...Lasīt vairāk
No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Nov-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781787380974)
Exposes the secret global network that profited from apartheid. In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sa...Lasīt vairāk
The Secretary-General announced on 24 May 2018 his Agenda for Disarmament, which outlines a set of practical measures across the entire range of disarmament issues, including weapons of mass destruction, conventional arms and future weapon technologi...Lasīt vairāk
