Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Introducing the special section on ‘arms export controls during war and armed conflict’

Introducing the special section on ‘arms export controls during war and armed conflict’ The war in Ukraine has brought questions of arms exports, military aid and military spending to the forefront of western foreign policy agendas. Western state responses to Russia's invasion have accelerated trends that started after its 2014 annexation of Crimea. Since then, US military aid to Ukraine has increased to the point where it is now the largest single recipient of US security assistance in 2022 (Yousif, 2022), the EU has committed €3.1 billion under the European Peace Facility (European Council, 2023), and European states are making additional bilateral military commitments. Expert and public commentary is largely in favour of supporting Ukraine militarily on grounds of self‐defence, even while noting the risks associated with arms transfers into conflict zones (Hudson, 2022; Yousif & Stohl, 2022). There is some dissent on the European left and from the peace movement (Berliner Zeitung, 2022; Broek, 2022), but it has been countered by the Ukrainian left and feminist movements in favour of arms exports for self‐defence against invasion and occupation (Bilous, 2022; Tsymbalyuk & Zamuruieva, 2022).Western states have also been major arms suppliers of Saudi Arabia and the UAE during ‐ and long before ‐ their participation in the war in Yemen. In this case, however, the war has received far http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Global Policy Wiley

Introducing the special section on ‘arms export controls during war and armed conflict’

Stavrianakis, Anna
Global Policy , Volume 14 (1) – Feb 1, 2023
Download PDF
5 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/introducing-the-special-section-on-arms-export-controls-during-war-and-KLMOGrdspI

References (22)

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2023 University of Durham and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
ISSN
1758-5880
eISSN
1758-5899
DOI
10.1111/1758-5899.13194
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

The war in Ukraine has brought questions of arms exports, military aid and military spending to the forefront of western foreign policy agendas. Western state responses to Russia's invasion have accelerated trends that started after its 2014 annexation of Crimea. Since then, US military aid to Ukraine has increased to the point where it is now the largest single recipient of US security assistance in 2022 (Yousif, 2022), the EU has committed €3.1 billion under the European Peace Facility (European Council, 2023), and European states are making additional bilateral military commitments. Expert and public commentary is largely in favour of supporting Ukraine militarily on grounds of self‐defence, even while noting the risks associated with arms transfers into conflict zones (Hudson, 2022; Yousif & Stohl, 2022). There is some dissent on the European left and from the peace movement (Berliner Zeitung, 2022; Broek, 2022), but it has been countered by the Ukrainian left and feminist movements in favour of arms exports for self‐defence against invasion and occupation (Bilous, 2022; Tsymbalyuk & Zamuruieva, 2022).Western states have also been major arms suppliers of Saudi Arabia and the UAE during ‐ and long before ‐ their participation in the war in Yemen. In this case, however, the war has received far

Journal

Global Policy – Wiley

Published: Feb 1, 2023

There are no references for this article.