Arms Embargo Research Articles

The Breakdown of the Arms Embargo against South Africa

Mr. Chairman, Members of the Subcommittee,As you know, the United Nations Security Council called for an arms embargo against South Africa in 1963. Its objective was to prevent South Africa’s acquiring foreign weapons with which to build a modern military machine. South Africa did not have then, and lacks even now, the capacity to produce sophisticated modern arms economically. The Council reasoned at the time that if South Africa were denied supplies of modern arms it would find it difficult to resist the growing internal demands for dismantling apartheid. Many states saw the arms embargo as the best way to ensure peaceful change in southern Africa. And the call for an embargo was issued with that explicit purpose in mind.

The Breakdown of the Arms Embargo against South Africa

The Breakdown of the Arms Embargo against South Africa

The Breakdown of the Arms Embargo against South Africa

Mr. Chairman, Members of the Subcommittee,As you know, the United Nations Security Council called for an arms embargo against South Africa in 1963. Its objective was to prevent South Africa’s acquiring foreign weapons with which to build a modern military machine. South Africa did not have then, and lacks even now, the capacity to produce sophisticated modern arms economically. The Council reasoned at the time that if South Africa were denied supplies of modern arms it would find it difficult to resist the growing internal demands for dismantling apartheid. Many states saw the arms embargo as the best way to ensure peaceful change in southern Africa. And the call for an embargo was issued with that explicit purpose in mind.

Democracy and Foreign Policy, A Case History: The Sino-Japanese Dispute, 1931-33

Introduction. Prologue. Part 1. 1. The League Council and Manchuria. 2.The Controversy: First Stage Part 2: The Second Phase 3. Anglo-American Co-operation 4. The Stimson Note 5. The Letter to Senator Borah 6. British Opinion on the Borah Letter 7. The Sanctions Legend 8. Shanghai and Sanctions - 1 9. Shanghai and Sanctions - 2 10. Shanghai and Sanctions - 3 Part 3: The Third Phase 11. Waiting for the Lytton Report Part IV: The Last Phase 12. The Lytton Report 13. What Matsuoka Said 14. The Forensic Defence of Japan 15. The Breakdown of Conciliation 16. The Assembly's Report 17. The Arms Embargo Campaign 18. The Debate of February 27th, 1933 19. The Embargo 20. To the Tangku Truce Part 5: Post-Amistice 21. The After Years Part 6: Commentary 22. The Parties and the Dispute 23. Collective Action by Great Britain 24. Within Their Power 25. The Government's Policy Appendix. Index.

British Control over the Export of war Materials

At a time when the subject of arms embargoes and arms export control is arousing considerable interest both at home and abroad, it is not untimely to examine the system of control which has developed in one of the chief arms producing and exporting countries of the world—Great Britain. Much attention has been devoted to the alleged evils of the international traffic in arms, and to the desirability of an effective government control over all armaments exports. Little consideration, on the other hand, has been given by writers to the question of how such control should be administered by a government, and what measures are actually involved. Taking the experience of Great Britain as a case study, the writer proposes in the following pages to trace the development of arms export control in that country, to examine the ways in which it has been administered, and to point out some of the difficulties which have been encountered. The present article may be looked upon, therefore, as a case study in the broader subject of national controls over the export of war materials.

The Arms Embargo Resolution and American Neutrality

The Arms Embargo Resolution and American Neutrality