Abstract
From Somalia and Afghanistan to Bosnia, Haiti, Colombia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Congo, small arms and light weapons were a common feature of the human rights calamities of the 1990’s.
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*A shorter version of this paper is published as “U.S. Small Arms Policy: Having It Both Ways,” in the Summer 2007 issue of World Policy Journal.
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Waltz, Susan
(2007)
"US Policy on Small Arms Transfers: A Human Rights Perspective,"
Human Rights & Human Welfare: Vol. 7:
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1, Article 51.
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