SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ON SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS

Compiled by Michael Klare, Hampshire College,
January 2003

***For a more comprehensive list of sources, see the Light Weapons Bibliography and Resource List compiled by Joshua Margolin, available on-line at the web-site of UNIDIR.

***For an overview of this field, see: "Small Arms, Big Problem," Special Issue of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, January-February 1999.

Austin, Kathi, "Illicit Arms Brokers: Aiding and Abetting Atrocities," The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2002, Volume IX, Issue 1, pp. 203-216.

----, "Hearts of Darkness," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 1999, pp. 34-40.

----, "The Illicit Gun Trade," Washington Post, January 24, 1999.

Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), The New Field of Micro-Disarmament: Addressing the Proliferation and Buildup of Small Arms and Light Weapons (Bonn: BICC and Monterey Institute of International Studies, June 1996).

Boutwell, Jeffrey, "Weaponization of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process," The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2002, Volume IX, Issue 1, pp. 293-304.

----, "The Wild West Bank," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 1999, pp. 41-48.

Jeffrey Boutwell and Michael Klare, "A Scourge of Small Arms," Scientific American, June 2000, pp. 30-35.

Boutwell, Jeffrey and Michael Klare, eds., Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, 1999).

Boutwell, Jeffrey, Michael T. Klare, and Laura Reed, eds., Lethal Commerce: The Global Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons (Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995).

British-American Security Information Council (BASIC), Combating Illicit Light Weapons Trafficking: Developments and Opportunities (London and Washington: BASIC, Project on Light Weapons, 1998).

Wendy Cukier, "Small Arms and Light Weapons: A Public Health Approach," The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2002, Volume IX, Issue 1, pp. 261-280.

Dhanapala, Jayantha, "Multilateral Cooperation on Small Arms and Light Weapons: From Crisis to Collective Response," The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2002, Volume IX, Issue 1, pp. 163-172.

----, et. al., eds., Small Arms Control: Old Weapons, New Issues (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate for the UN Institute of Disarmament Research, 1999).

Eavis, Paul, "SALW in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region: Challenges and Ways Forward," The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2002, Volume IX, Issue 1, pp. 251-260.

Ezell, Virginia Hart, "Small Arms: Dominating Conflict in Early Twenty-First Century," The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2002, Volume IX, Issue 1, pp. 305-312.

Gamba, Virginia, ed., Society Under Siege: Crime, Violence and Illegal Weapons, vol. 1, Crime Violence and Illegal Weapons (Halfway House, South Africa: Institute for Strategic Studies, 1997); vol. 2, Licit Responses to Illicit Weapons (1998).

Greene, Owen, Tackling Light Weapons Proliferation: Issues and Priorities for the EU (London: Saferworld, April 1997).

----, Light Weapons and Peacebuilding in Central and East Africa (London, International Alert, July 1998).

Human Rights Watch/Arms Project South Africa, A Question of Principle: Arms Trade and Human Rights (New York: Human Rights Watch, October 2000).

----, Bulgaria, Money Talks: Arms Dealings with Human Rights Abusers (New York: Human Rights Watch, April, 1999).

----, Arms Availability and the Situation of Civilians in Armed Conflict (Geneva: ICRC, 1999).

----, Arsenals on the Cheap: NATO Expansion and the Arms Cascade (New York: Human Rights Watch, April, 1999).

----, Sudan: Global Trade, Local Impact (New York: Human Rights Watch, August 1998).

----, Stoking the Fires: Military Assistance and Arms Trafficking in Burundi (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1997).

----, Arming Rwanda (New York: Human Rights Watch, January 1994).

----, India: Arms and Buses in Indian Punjab and Kashmir (New York: Human Rights Watch, September 1994).

International Committee of the Red Cross, Arms Availability and Violations of International Humanitarian Law and the Deterioration of the Situation of Civilians in Armed Conflicts, Report of an Expert Group Meeting, Oslo, Norway, 18-20 May 1998 (Oslo: Norwegian Red Cross, 1998).

Karp, Aaron, "Small Arms: Back to the Future," The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2002, Volume IX, Issue 1, pp. 179-192.

Klare, Michael T., "The Kalashnikov Age," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 1999, pp. 18-22.

----, "The New Arms Race: Light Weapons and International Security," Current History, April 1997, pp. 173-178.

----, "Stemming the Lethal Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons," Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 1995, pp. 52-58.

----, "Awash in Armaments: Implications of the Trade in Light Weapons," Harvard International Review, Winter 1994/95, pp. 24-26, 75-76.

Klare, Michael and David Andersen, A Scourge of Guns: The Diffusion of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Latin America (Washington, DC: Federation of American Scientists, 1996).

Klare, Michael and Robert Rotberg, The Scourge of Small Arms, WPF Report no. 23 (Cambridge, MA: World Peace Foundation, 1999).

Laurance, Edward J., Light Weapons and Intrastate Conflict: Early Warning Factors and Preventive Action (Washington, DC: Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, 1998).

----, The New Field of Micro-Disarmament: Addressing the Proliferation and Buildup of Small Arms and Light Weapons, Based on a study prepared for the German Foreign Office (Bonn: Bonn International Center for Conversion, September 1996).

Lumpe, Lora, ed., Running Guns: The Global Black Market in Small Arms (London: Zed Books, 2000).

----, "Small Arms Trade," Foreign Policy in Focus, Federation of American Scientists, vol. 3, no. 1 (May 1998).

----, "The Leader of the Pack," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 1999, pp. 27-36.

Marsh, Nicholas, "Two Sides of the Same Coin? The Legal and Illegal Trade in Small Arms," The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2002, Volume IX, Issue 1, pp. 217-228.

Montague, Dena, "The Business of War and the Prospects for Peace in Sierra Leone," The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2002, Volume IX, Issue 1, pp. 229-238.

Musah, Abdel-Fatau, "Small Arms: A Time Bomb Under West Africa's Democratization Process," The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2002, Volume IX, Issue 1, pp. 239-250.

Michael Renner, "An Epidemic of Guns," World-Watch, July/August 1998, pp. 22-29.

 ----, Small Arms, Big Impact: The Next Challenge of Disarmament (Washington, DC: The Worldwatch Institute, 1997).

Singh, Jasjit, ed., Light Weapons and International Security (New Delhi: Indian Pugwash Society and British American Security Information Council, 1995).

Stohl, Rachel, "Targeting Children: Small Arms and Children in Armed Conflict," The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring 2002, Volume IX, Issue 1, pp. 281-292.

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Small Arms Control: Old Weapons, New Issues (Geneva: UNIDR 1999).

----, Small Arms Management and Peacekeeping in Southern Africa (Geneva: UNIDIR, 1996), and other case studies from the UNIDIR Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Project on Somalia, Cambodia, Liberia, Mozambique, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, and Croatia and Bosnia-Herzogovina.

Wood, Brian and Johan Peleman Controlling the Brokers and Shipping Agents  (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 1999).