Postinternationalism and Small Arms Control

Even though impacts generated by the widespread availability and ongoing use of small arms and light weapons have not reached a magnitude sufficient to radically reorder contemporary world affairs, awareness of the nature and extent of these impacts compels some international actors into taking decisive action. Rogers examines the international community's response to the challenge of controlling small arms and light weapons since the early 1990s. He pays specific regard to the maturing relationships among particular actors of world affairs and the nascent interconnectivity among their strategies for, and approaches toward, controlling these weapons. Furthermore, the book also identifies ways in which the captains of small arms industry, arms brokers, and chief users of these weapons are able to mitigate, resist, or elude the intended effects of those responses.