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Publications

• From the Frying Pan into the Fire: U.S. Arms Sales and Military Assistance to the Persian Gulf and Middle East, by David Isenberg, BASIC Paper No. 55, September 2007. Also available as a pdf file at: http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Papers/BP55.pdf.
  
  
• The UK Defence Industrial Strategy and Alternative Approaches, by Dr Steven Schofield, BASIC Paper No. 50, March 2006. The Defence Industrial Strategy is a lost opportunity of historic proportions. Rather than address a broader global security context the Ministry of Defence follows an all-too predictable path, defining security in exclusively military terms. Also available as a pdf file at: http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Papers/BP50.pdf.
  
  
• What Happens When A White Elephant Meets a Paper Tiger? The Prospective Sale of Eurofighter Typhoon Aircraft to Saudi Arabia and the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports, BASIC Paper 46, 23 December 2005.
  
  
• Escaping the Subsidy Trap: Why arms exports are bad for Britain, This report demonstrates that significant subsidies are provided to UK arms exports, and that there are no economic or employment gains to be had from such support, BASIC, Saferworld, Oxford Research Group, 22 September 2004.
  
  
• US Congressional Report Shows US and UK Dominate Arms Deliveries to the Developing World, BASIC Notes, 17 September 2004
  
  
• Disposal of Surplus Small Arms: A survey of policies and practices in OSCE countries, Joint Report with Bonn International Center for Conversion, Saferworld, and The Small Arms Survey, February 2004.
  
  
• EU and US co-operation on arms export controls in a post 9/11 world, (PDF). Joint BASIC and Saferworld report on the expert roundtable held 23 January 2003 in Washington, DC. September 2003.
  
  
• Brief Submission to the Biennial Meeting of States on Small Arms and Light Weapons, UN Conference in New York, 7-11 July 2003. See UN and IANSA Web sites on the conference.
  
  
• Licensed Production Overseas: Time for a New Control Initiative? Saferworld and BASIC Discussion Paper from roundtable meeting on EU and US Cooperation on arms export controls in a post 9/11 world, January 2003. (Posted Spring 2003.)
  
  
• Man Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) Saferworld and BASIC Discussion Paper from roundtable meeting on EU and US Cooperation on arms export controls in a post 9/11 world, January 2003. (Posted Spring 2003.)
  
  
• Draft Secondary Legislation Consultation, (PDF), BASIC's response to the DTI's Consultation Document on the secondary legislation for the Export Control Act 2002. 30 April 2003
  
  
• Campaigners Attack "Meddling" with Arms Laws Press release from the UK Working Group on Arms, 22 July 2002
  
  
• Export Controls in the Framework Agreement Countries
  BASIC Research Reports 2001.1, July 2001. In July 2000, Europe's six largest arms producers - France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom signed a Framework Agreement to facilitate the restructuring and operation of the European defense industry. Four out of the six countries have now ratified the Framework Agreement. This paper outlines the export control regulations in the six countries in order to better understand the implications of this harmonization.
  
  
• NATO and Small Arms: From Words to Deeds, Research Report 2000.4, 6 October 2000. NATO currently is engaged in a process of developing new policies for arms control and disarmament, under a mandate given by the heads of state and government of the 19 member nations during the Alliance's April 1999 summit. This paper is aimed at fleshing out how NATO as a body, the individual allies and NATO's partner nations in Central and Eastern Europe can contribute to the growing international effort to stem the proliferation of small arms and light weapons.
  
  
• NATO and Arms Control: A Blueprint for Action Research Report 2000.3, 3 October 2000. This paper suggests some possible areas for progress within NATO regarding nuclear forces, heavy conventional weapons, and small arms.
  
  
• European Accord Threatens to Lower Export Controls, BASIC Paper #33, August 2000. By Kathleen Miller and Theresa Hitchens
  
  
• The Arms Fixers: Controlling the Brokers and Shipping Agents, Research Report 99.3, November 1999. This report uncovers new details of arms brokering deals, implicating major actors taking advantage of current loopholes in UK and EU law. The authors highlight a number of key concerns that urgently need to be addressed, including weak legislation, poor enforcement mechanisms and lax financial controls/company regulation. Finally, the report makes substantive proposals for regulating the activities of arms brokering and shipping agent. Preface and Introduction available; entire report available on NISAT's website.
  
  
• One Size Fits All?: Prospects for a Global Convention on Illicit Trafficking by 2000, Research Report 99.2, April 1999. The campaign to control small arms and light weapons has gone global. The current discussions on the UN Firearms Protocol, while groundbreaking, also run the risk of producing a document that falls short of human rights and humanitarian law standards. Political pressure is propelling the negotiations towards universalisation of the Inter-American Convention on Illicit Weapons Trafficking without adequately strengthening it for the global context.
  
  
• Controlling the gun-runners: Proposals for EU action to regulate arms brokering and shipping agents BASIC/Saferworld Briefing Paper, February 1999. This report, produced in conjunction with the Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NISAT) and Saferworld, highlights the lack of oversight and regulation of arms brokering and shipping arranged by EU residents. Recommendations for closing the systemic loopholes include establishing EU-wide agreement on which activities to control, monitoring agents and their activities, and striving to internationalize any EU control system.
  
  
• Small Arms and Light Weapons: An Issue for the OSCE?
  A report of a workshop organized by the governments of Canada, Norway, the Netherlands and Switzerland in association with BASIC 9-10 November 1998 (available in print only).
  
  
• Stopping the Spread of Small Arms: International Initiatives
  A report of the seminar organized by the governments of Canada and Norway in association with BASIC, 25 September 1998 (available in print only).
  
  
• Diplomacy and Arms: West Sends Mixed Messages to Aegean Adversaries BASIC Paper #29, August 1998

• Deadly Rounds: Ammunition and Armed Conflict, Research Report 98.4, May 1998. This report discusses the link between ammunition and armed conflict, and explores ammunition production, trade routes, and the negative effects of ammunition supply on stability and security. Strategies for controlling ammunition address the legal and illicit trade of ammunition, and recommendations for future ammunition studies are offered. Executive Summary available in HTML format.
  
  
• Eastern Europe's Arsenal on the Loose: Managing Light Weapons Flows to Conflict Zones BASIC Paper # 26, May 1998.
  
  
• Campaigns & Projects on Light Weapons, Research Report 98.3, April 1998. This guide contains descriptions of projects and contact information for organizations and individuals working on light weapons issues. NOTE: For current information, please go to IANSA's Web Site
  
  
• The Struggle Continues: Light Weapons Destruction in Mozambique BASIC Paper # 25, April 1998
  
  
• Combating Illicit Light Weapons Trafficking: Developments and Opportunities, Research Report 98.1, January 1998.
  This paper provides an overview of the illicit light weapons trade and evaluates several multilateral control initiatives already underway, most notably in the EU and OAS. The authors make a series of policy recommendations that stress the need for cooperative action, beginning with the summit of the G8 in May 1998. They go on to point out the danger of emphasizing illicit transfers to divert attention from the spread of light weapons through licit and "gray" market channels. Executive Summary available in HTML format. Entire report available only in PDF format.
  
  
• Links Between Domestic Laws and International Light Weapons Control 11-12 December 1997. This paper, presented by Dr. Natalie J. Goldring at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, not only provides an overview of the global light weapons problem, but also discusses domestic control of light weapons, its impact on the international weapons trade, and policy options for effecting change in the national and international arenas.
  
  
• Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Light Weapons Destruction in Central America BASIC Paper # 24, December 1997.

• Africa: The Challenge of Light Weapons Destruction During Peacekeeping Operation BASIC Paper # 23, December 1997.

• Bridging the Gap: Light and Major Conventional Weapons in Recent Conflicts, 18 March 1997. This paper, prepared by Natalie Goldring (with research assistance from Susannah Dyer, Joel Johnston, and Alexander Chloros) for the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, examines the roles of light and major conventional weapons in recent conflicts and stresses the importance of addressing the entire range used in such conflicts when formulating policy proposals. In HTML format (no chart).

• Controlling Global Light Weapons Transfers: Working Toward Policy Options 20 April 1996, This paper, prepared by Natalie Goldring and Susannah Dyer for the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, outlines possible policy options for controlling light weapons transfers, and provides a preliminary analysis of which policies might best suit the local, regional and global dynamics at play in various scenarios where light weapons play a major role.

• Light Weapons Manufacture in the Public and Private Sectors: A View From Pakistan, Project on Light Weapons Working Paper #2, February 1996. This paper studies the management of light weapons manufacture in both the public and private sectors in Pakistan, and offers policy recommendations.

• Chronicling an Absence of Restraint: The 1995 UN Arms Register, BASIC Paper # 13, 3 November 1995.
  This paper utilizes the 1995 UN Arms Register, SIPRI Yearbook 1995, and Monterey Institute of International Studies' evaluation of the UN Arms Register to analyze the discrepancies between importer and exporter submissions to the UN Arms Register and suggests ways to strengthen the register. (Available only in .pdf format).

• Light Weapons and International Security, New Delhi: British American Security Information Council and Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, October 1995. This book contains the papers and research notes from the October 1995 Project on Light Weapons workshop in New Delhi, India. The conference was co-sponsored by BASIC and the American and Indian affiliates of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

• Arming Central and Eastern Europe BASIC Paper # 12, September 1995. By Susannah Dyer and Tasos Kokkinides

• NATO Arms Exports to Turkey and Greece: Inconsistencies Revealed, BASIC Note, 25 July 1995. By Tasos Kokkinides and Otfried Nassauer.

• Research Sources on the International Trade in Light Weapons, 24 March 1995. By Dr. Natalie J. Goldring, Dr. Michael Klare, Otfried Nassauer with Susannah Dyer, Adi Krause, and Jeff Iezzi.

• Open Arms for the Prodigal Son: The Future of South Africa's Arms Trade Policies, BASIC Research Report 94.2, June 1994.
  By Susan Willet

• Extraordinary Circumstances? Arming Human Rights Abusers, BASIC Paper # 2, 11 February 1994. By Jamie Whitaker

• Moving Toward Transparency: An Evaluation of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, BASIC Research Report 93.6, October 1993. By Dr. Natalie J. Goldring.

• Fuelling Balkan Fires: The West's Arming of Greece and Turkey, BASIC Research Report 93.3, August 1993. By Tasos Kokkinides, Lyle Goldstein, and Dan Plesch.

• Showing No Restraint: Missed Opportunities for Arms Trade Control, BASIC Research Report 93.2, April 1993. By Dr. Natalie J. Goldring.

• Recent Initiatives to Control the Arms Trade, BASIC Research Report 92.3, June 1992. By Sandra Ionno with Colleen Logan.

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