http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/arms-trade Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:44:31 -0400 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:44:31 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1605/commercial-interests-political-influence-and-the-arms-trade By Nicholas Taber - Given the importance of the global defense trade to geopolitics, the global economy, and international relations at large, this paper examines the political economy of the U.S. defense industry. The goal of this study is to determine the extent to which the U.S. arms trade is driven by commercial interests. This study hypothesizes that an increase in the political influence of the U.S. arms industry leads to any increase in arms exports. Using the congruence method, this study observes campaign contributions in given years from defense corporations with the largest market shares. While strong... Fri, 31 May 2013 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1605/commercial-interests-political-influence-and-the-arms-trade http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1244/banning-evil-cluster-munitions-and-the-successful-formation-of-a-global-prohibition-regime By Denise Garcia - The rise and entry into force of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) that prohibits cluster bombs constitutes a global prohibition regime. I argue that this new prohibition regime and the arising new international norm set by the CCM, i.e. the prohibition of the use, development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, retention or transfer of cluster munitions developed due to a strong moral opprobrium, initially elicited by commanding moral force of International Humanitarian Law as a robust and compelling previously existing normative structure and then by the success of the ban on... Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1244/banning-evil-cluster-munitions-and-the-successful-formation-of-a-global-prohibition-regime http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/143/the-burden-of-disarmament-un-peacekeeping-operations-and-illicit-weapons By Ali B. Al-Bayaa - An increase in conflicting geopolitical interest and tendency for violence has seen the demand for weapons (especially small arms) increase on a continuous basis. All the meanwhile, these conflicts have called on the United Nations (and other multilateral institutions[1]) operations to restore the peace. While operational success of these efforts has hindered upon the fact that states face a difficulty in agreeing on what the common challenges are, let alone the collective strategies to address them (Prins, 2006:110), one thing remains evident, and that is the fact that small arms and light weapons... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:58 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/143/the-burden-of-disarmament-un-peacekeeping-operations-and-illicit-weapons