Foreign Policy in Transition? Human Rights, Democracy, and U.S. Arms Exports
In: International studies quarterly: the journal of the International Studies Association, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 647-668
ISSN: 1468-2478
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In: International studies quarterly: the journal of the International Studies Association, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 647-668
ISSN: 1468-2478
In: International studies quarterly: the journal of the International Studies Association, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 647-667
ISSN: 0020-8833, 1079-1760
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of political & military sociology, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 240-258
ISSN: 0047-2697
In: American journal of political science, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 123
ISSN: 1540-5907
In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 123
ISSN: 0092-5853
In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 123-131
ISSN: 0092-5853
In: Social science journal: official journal of the Western Social Science Association, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 413-429
ISSN: 0362-3319
In: Journal of peace research, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 233-244
ISSN: 1460-3578
Scholars traditionally have focused on arms as a means of deterring, initiating, maintaining, or terminating international war. Indeed, based on the assumption that a coercive military response is required if security is to be preserved, arms are widely viewed as an instrument of defense from external threat. In the developing world, however, internal threats are far more common. Yet the role of arms in facilitating domestic political violence has received far less scholarly attention. This article endeavors to expand upon both our understanding of arms as a source of conflict and our knowledge of the correlates of human rights repression. To this end, this study tests the relationship between the importation of arms and the repression of personal integrity rights. Employing a pooled time-series cross-sectional design, the patterns of arms acquisitions behavior and human rights violations are examined for developing countries for the years 1982 through 1992. The results indicate that arms imports by developing countries are linked to poor human rights conditions. Thus, arms acquisitions appear to contribute to repression by making violent political acts more feasible.
In: Journal of peace research, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 233-244
ISSN: 0022-3433
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of Third World studies: historical and contemporary Third World problems and issues, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 75-94
ISSN: 8755-3449
In: International Studies Quarterly, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 23
In: International studies quarterly: the journal of the International Studies Association, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 23-44
ISSN: 0020-8833, 1079-1760
In: Social science quarterly, Band 77, Heft 4, S. 939-940
ISSN: 0038-4941
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 339-358
ISSN: 1547-7444