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Arms Export Controls Under Siege of Globalisation - Defeated Nation States or Voluntary Surrender?

European Politics
Foreign Policy
Governance
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Decision Making
Europeanisation through Law
Policy Implementation
John Helferich
Sciences Po Paris
John Helferich
Sciences Po Paris

Abstract

While defence industrial production and trade is increasingly transnationalised, the control of arms exports still takes place almost exclusively on a national level. With the example of the German arms export control regime, this work seeks to analyse whether the current situation yields arms export control risks that could undermine central German foreign and security policy principles. In a second step, inferences about International Relations theory are drawn based on the current regulations and their implementation. Looking at three case studies in which national control regimes are confronted with transnational trade contexts, this work finds that transnational production and trade indeed creates a number of arms diversion risks, however, these risks are predominantly a result of deliberate political choices rather than a phenomenon of hyper-globalisation