Disarmament diplomacy and human security : regimes, norms, and moral progress in international relations / / Denise Garcia

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815020203321
• Autore: Garcia Denise
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2011
• ISBN: 0-203-83070-9; 9786613040350; 1-283-04035-2; 1-136-82419-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 231 p
• Collana: Routledge global security studies
• Disciplina: 327.1/74
• Soggetti: Disarmament; Arms control; Arms transfers - International cooperation; Security, International; National security
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Disarmament Diplomacy and Human Security -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Norms: moral progress and evolution in the conduct of international affairs -- Regimes, norms and moral progress -- The making of international politics through regimes -- Moral international politics and progress in international relations -- Disarmament diplomacy and international disarmament law -- 2. The Arms Trade Treaty -- The arms trade -- The changed arms trade in the globalized world -- History and evolution of treaty making -- Multilateral coalition building and an emerging international norm within the UN -- Multiple actor partnerships -- Principles applicable to an ATT: actors beyond the state -- Existing soft, customary and treaty law: the criteria and principles for norm building and regime formation -- 3. Small arms and light weapons regime and the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence -- Introduction -- Overview: the evolution of the small arms and light weapons regime -- The legal and political framework on ; small arms and light weapons -- The impacts and implementation of the PoA and regional instruments -- Limits to and possibilities of implementing the regime at the global level -- Skillful diplomacy furthering regime evolution at the international level -- Regime consolidation: the EU Treaty on Arms Transfers -- The Geneva Declaration: a revolutionary form of disarmament diplomacy and humanitarian action -- 4. Banning cluster munitions -- Cluster munitions and their effects on human security -- Introduction to the CCM and the context in which it developed -- IHL applicable to cluster munitions -- Multilateral negotiations: the dual-track diplomacy process -- The CCW and the Oslo Process -- The construction of a taboo -- The Convention on Cluster Munitions: ingredients for success.; Negotiating and signing the final CCM: Dublin and Oslo -- The significance of the CCM -- The US position and change of policy -- 5. Conclusions and findings: Moral international relations -- Human security through disarmament diplomacy -- Change in hard security -- Moral vision, diplomatic craft, moral progress and their role in regime making -- The evolution of the interpretation of international humanitarian law and human rights law and application to disarmament diplomacy -- Human rights-basedsecurity regimes -- The moral force of international humanitarian law -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book assesses how progress in disarmament diplomacy in the last decade has improved human security. It examines moral and normative progress in international relations by investigating three cases: the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT); the ban on cluster munitions; and the international regime on small arms and light weapons.