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Research in the field of international agreements on small arms and light weapons (hereafter SALW) has focused mainly on specific aspects of the problem viewed from an international relations perspective, whereas the social movement dimension of the topic has been largely under-researched. Moreover, this research has been almost exclusively done by insiders, either activists or academics, closely connected to the NGO sector. As a result, this perspective may be biased toward overemphasizing the NGO role in these processes. In addition, the majority of these works do not cover more recent events.1 This essay expands und updates previous analyses, taking into account the events of 2006, while also contributing original empirical research from an outside perspective.
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See, e.g., Denise García, “Norm Building in the Evolution of the Control of Small Arms in the International Agenda,” Security and Defense Studies Review 5, no. 2 (Autumn 2005): 225–255.
Small Arms Survey, Yearbook 2003: Development Denied (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), chapter 7.
See Richard Price, “Reversing the Gun Sights: Transnational Civil Society Targets Land Mines,” International Organization 52, no. 3 (July 1998): 613–644.
See also Javier Alcalde, “The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, the Mine Ban Treaty and Human Security Ten Years Later,” European Political Science 7, no. 4 (December 2008): 519–529.
Estimated by the UN. See United Nations, “Setting the Record Straight.” http://disarmament.un.org/cab/smallarms/facts.htm (accessed July 2005).
John Borrie and Vanessa Martin Randin, eds, Alternative Approaches in Multilateral Decision Making: Disarmament as Humanitarian Action (Geneva: UNIDIR, 2005).
See Small Arms Survey, Yearbook 2002: Counting the Human Cost (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), chapter 5.
Ole Elgstrom and Christer Jönsson, eds, European Union Negotiations: Processes, Networks and Institutions (London: Routledge, 2005).
See Javier Alcalde and Caroline Bouchard, “Human Security and Coherence within the EU: The Case of Small Arms and Light Weapons,” Hamburg Review on Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (June 2008), Special issue on Revisiting Coherence in the Common Foreign and Security Policy. http://www.hamburg-review.com/fileadmin/pdf/03_01/F_ Alcalde_02.pdf.
For the term “scale shift,” see Sidney Tarrow and Doug McAdam, “Scale Shift in Transnational Contention,” in Donatella della Porta and Sidney Tarrow, eds, Transnational Protest and Global Activism (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), 121–150.
Ronald M. Behringer, “Middle Power Leadership on the Human Security Agenda,” Cooperation and Conflict 40, no. 3 (2005): 305–342.
David A. Snow and Robert D. Benford, “Ideology, Frame Resonance and Participant Mobilization,” International Social Movement Research 1 (1988): 197–219.
Kristin A Goss, Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
Patrick McCarthy, “Deconstructing Disarmament: The Challenge of Making the Disarmament and Arms Control Machinery Responsive to the Humanitarian Imperative,” in John Borrie and Vanessa Martin Randin, eds, Alternative Approaches in Multilateral Decision Making: Disarmament as Humanitarian Action (Geneva, UNIDIR, 2005), 51–66.
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Alcalde, J. (2012). The Control Arms Campaign: A Case Study of NGO Impacts on International Relations after the Cold War. In: Fahlenbrach, K., Klimke, M., Scharloth, J., Wong, L. (eds) The Establishment Responds. Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119833_12
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