TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vranckx,An
AU  - Slijper,Frank
AU  - Isbister,Roy
ED  - Ghent University.
TI  - Lessons from MENA: appraising EU transfers of military and security equipment to the Middle East and North Africa : a contribution to the review of the EU Common Position 
SN  - 9789038218700
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Gent
PB  - Academia Press
KW  - armed conflicts
KW  - human rights
KW  - arms embargoes
KW  - EU
KW  - Sudan
KW  - Europe
KW  - arms trade
KW  - arms transfers
KW  - dual-use technology
KW  - small arms
KW  - landmines
KW  - arms trade regulations
KW  - export control
KW  - Middle East
KW  - North Africa
KW  - Persian gulf
KW  - Libya
KW  - Tunisia
KW  - Egypt
KW  - non-state armed groups
KW  - paramilitaries
KW  - COARM
KW  - transparency
KW  - Common Position
N1  - Published by The Conflict Research Group (CRG) which is a multidisciplinary research unit at the Ghent University (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences); This report analyses EU arms exports to MENA, in recent years both from an overarching perspective as well as detailing specific transfers. While the particular timing and nature of the Arab Spring itself could not be predicted, the potential for trouble at some point and the responding State repression could hardly be a surprise given the nature of these authoritarian regimes. While NGOs over the years have questioned a number of arms sales to undemocratic regimes with a history of violating human rights, the Arab Spring appeared to be a necessary condition for EU governments to recognise that the implementation of their export control policies had failed on numerous occasions. This analysis probes the level of caution EU exporting authorities demonstrated; "November 2011"
UR  - http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/showRecord.php?RecordId=36385
ER  -