Beschreibung:
Offers a look at the ways in which NGOs portray the arms trade as a problem of international politics and the strategies they use to effect change and contribute to the generation of consent for a hierarchical and asymmetrical world military order, facilitating intervention in the global South based on liberal understandings of the arms trade.
Introduction 1.Conceptualising Global Civil Society 2. Arms and Coercion 3. NGOs, Arms Capital and the State 4. Arming Ourselves 5. Arming the South 6, Disarming the South Conclusion