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Us Policy On Small Arms Transfers: A Human Rights Perspective, Susan Waltz
Us Policy On Small Arms Transfers: A Human Rights Perspective, Susan Waltz
Human Rights & Human Welfare
From Somalia and Afghanistan to Bosnia, Haiti, Colombia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Congo, small arms and light weapons were a common feature of the human rights calamities of the 1990’s.
© Susan Waltz. All rights reserved.*
*A shorter version of this paper is published as “U.S. Small Arms Policy: Having It Both Ways,” in the Summer 2007 issue of World Policy Journal.
This paper may be freely circulated in electronic or hard copy provided it is not modified in any way, the rights of the author not infringed, and the paper is not quoted or cited without express permission …
The Politic 2007 Fall, The Politic, Inc.
The Politic 2007 Summer, The Politic, Inc.
Private Sector Influence In The International Telecommunication Union, Patricia K. Mccormick
Private Sector Influence In The International Telecommunication Union, Patricia K. Mccormick
Communication Faculty Research Publications
This paper aims to examine the influence of private corporations in the tripartite structure of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU): Telecommunications Standardization, Radiocommunication, and Telecommunications Development. The paper finds that, in the standardization sector, power has been effectively transferred from nation states to the private corporate sector since the approval process now enables standards to be approved by members of the study group that developed them, which is essentially the private sector. In the radiocommunication sector, the private sector continues to conduct much of the requisite technical work, but national governments are ultimately the decision makers and, further, it is …
The Politic 2007 Spring, The Politic, Inc.
The Politic 2007 Winter, The Politic, Inc.