Arms

Doublethink: The two faces of Norway’s foreign and development policy

Report for Forum for Environment and Development, Oslo (January 2010)

This report asks: how ethical is Norway’s foreign and development policy? It shows that the government has
taken an important ethical lead on some international policy issues but that, overall, Norway has lost its ethical
niche. Contains analysis of the Pension Fund, oil industry, arms exports, Norwegian corporations and policy
towards the World Bank.

The good, the bad and the ugly: A decade of Labour’s arms exports

Report for Saferworld (May 2007)

This report reviews the British government’s arms exports policies since 1997, showing how it continues to arm
persistent human rights abusers and states enduring conflicts, how the arms trade remains mired in secrecy, and
the foreign policy benefits of arms exports.

Arming and alarming? China’s arms exports and military relations with Africa

Chapter in The new Sinosphere: China in Africa (IPPR, London, 2006)

This analysis documents China’s arms exports and military relations with African countries, especially human
rights abusers, and offers reasons for China’s increasing involvement on the continent in rivalry with the US and Britain.

Key Links

Campaign against the Arms Trade
British American Security Information Council
FAFO Institute for Applied International Studies
Federation of American Scientists
Global Security
University of Bradford, School of Peace Studies