This book represents the perspectives of the foremost specialists on light weapons, and it surveys the wide range of policy options open to the international community. These include export and import controls, law enforcement strategies to break up black markets, collection and destruction of weapons following the end of conflict, and efforts to illuminate how small arms and light weapons made their way to the killing grounds of the 1990s.
Author Biography
Jeffrey Boutwell is associate executive officer at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, where he directs the program on international security studies. Michael T. Klare is professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies.
