First Year of the Arms Trade Treaty – Conceived to be dead on arrival or an ember to be stoked?

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

First Year of the Arms Trade Treaty – Conceived to be dead on arrival or an ember to be stoked?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Challenging explanations are offered by current scholarship on the motivation driving responsible arms transfer implementations and the possible merits of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). While polarizing perspectives are to be expected on such a landmark treaty, early practical impact assessments remain negativistic. At the same time however, much of the literature and popular opinion credits the ATT with “norm establishment” achievements and it is the subject of this article to scrutinize what those norms actually are. The presented paper outlines the starkest deficiencies of the ATT, perceived prior to and after its adoption. The findings provide a basis for a data grounded discussion of the contending explanations of motivations to weaken the treaty to such an extent, as well as adopt its final form between the realist explanation of norm contestations by state modernism, economic justifications, procedural concerns, and liberal militarism. Although the article finds that all four explanations can be anecdotally supported, it posits that none of the four positions are in isolation capable of a full explanation for major stakeholders’ behavior and proceeds to amalgamate a joint explanation with factors influencing resistance to joining or promoting a stronger global conventional arms trade regulation standard.

Název v anglickém jazyce

First Year of the Arms Trade Treaty – Conceived to be dead on arrival or an ember to be stoked?

Popis výsledku anglicky

Challenging explanations are offered by current scholarship on the motivation driving responsible arms transfer implementations and the possible merits of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). While polarizing perspectives are to be expected on such a landmark treaty, early practical impact assessments remain negativistic. At the same time however, much of the literature and popular opinion credits the ATT with “norm establishment” achievements and it is the subject of this article to scrutinize what those norms actually are. The presented paper outlines the starkest deficiencies of the ATT, perceived prior to and after its adoption. The findings provide a basis for a data grounded discussion of the contending explanations of motivations to weaken the treaty to such an extent, as well as adopt its final form between the realist explanation of norm contestations by state modernism, economic justifications, procedural concerns, and liberal militarism. Although the article finds that all four explanations can be anecdotally supported, it posits that none of the four positions are in isolation capable of a full explanation for major stakeholders’ behavior and proceeds to amalgamate a joint explanation with factors influencing resistance to joining or promoting a stronger global conventional arms trade regulation standard.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

SGEM 2016, BK 2 : Political Sciences and Law Proceedings, Vol. II,

ISBN

9786197105735

ISSN

2367-5659

e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

8

Strana od-do

165-172

Název nakladatele

International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on Social Sciences & Arts

Místo vydání

Sofia, Bulgaria

Místo konání akce

Albena

Datum konání akce

1. 1. 2016

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

Kód UT WoS článku

000395726900022