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This text takes issue with arguments that security studies is a discipline of limited use in making sense of the post-Cold War world. It argues that many of the most interesting theoretical issues in international relations can most usefully be

This book analyses the structure and motive forces that shape the global arms transfer and production system.

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This text takes issue with arguments that security studies is a discipline of limited use in making sense of the post-Cold War world. It argues that many of the most interesting theoretical issues in international relations can most usefully be studied through a prism labelled "security studies". The book combines chapters which provide a variety of critical perspectives on the discipline and address a diverse range of theoretical concerns, with chapters that examine such substantive issues as weapons proliferation and the changing meaning of "security" for actors in the erstwhile conflict between East and West.

Issues discussed in this publication include: facts and figures on the arms trade; why states buy and sell arms; the future of the arms trade; Canada's role in the system; and the possibilities for controlling the arms trade.

Includes excerpts from statements made by member states at the 48th session of the UN First Committee, and a listing of books, newspapers, journal and magazine articles and wire reports referring to the UN Register of Conventional arms.

In October 1987, the Institute organized a conference on International Transfer of Conventional Arms, comprised of experts participating in discussions on the following themes: the nature of international arms, the motives that drive states to supply them, the motives of recipient states, Canada's role in the system, and the prospects and problems associated with controlling the trade in conventional arms. This report summarizes these discussions.