• E4J University Module Series: Firearms

• Module 3: The Legal Market in Firearms

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • The history of the legitimate arms market
  • The need for a legitimate market
  • The key actors in the legitimate market
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• First published in June 2019

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   This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

• Bromund, Theodore (2012). The Risks the Arms Trade Treaty Poses to the Sovereignty of the United States . Washington: The Heritage Foundation.
• Brose, Eric (2014). Arms Race prior to 1914, Armament Policy. International Encyclopaedia of the First World War, Berlin: Freie Universität.
• Chalmers, Malcolm and Owen Greene (1994). The Development of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms: Prospects and Proposals. The Nonproliferation Review, Spring/Summer 1994.
• Fukui, Yasuhito (2015). The Arms Trade Treaty: Pursuit for the Effective Control of Arms Transfer, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, Vol. 20, Issue 2.
• Greene, Owen and Elizabeth Kirkham (2007). Small Arms and Light Weapons Transfer Controls to Prevent Diversion: Developing and Implementing Key Programme of Action Commitments , Geneva: Biting the Bullet Project.
• Killicoat, Phillip (2007). Weaponomics: The Global Market for Assault Rifles , World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4202, April 2007.
• Klare, Michael T. (2018). Arms Transfers and Trade . Encyclopaedia of American Foreign Policy.
• Pavesi, Irene (2016). Transfers and Transparency . Small Arms Survey Trade Update, Geneva: Small Arms Survey and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia.
• Small Arms Survey (2017). The Small Arms Trade Transparency Barometer: Interactive Map , Geneva: Small Arms Survey.
• Thomas, Clayton (2017). Arms Sales in the Middle East: Trends and Analytical Perspectives for U.S. Policy . Washington: Congressional Research Service.
• United Nations Comtrade Database (2018). UN Comtrade Data: International Trade Statistics . Geneva: United Nations.

 

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