The sanctions are likely to last beyond the current conflict. This may end up bringing about a solution to Africa’s desire to produce its own military hardware for its own use.
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In the long term the US still needs Saudi Arabia as an ally in the Middle East.
In January Airbus agreed to pay nearly 4 billions euros to settle bribery charges. Theories developed by criminology researchers explain how the firm was able to operate so long with such impunity.
The UK Court of Appeal ruled that the British government did not properly assess whether Saudi Arabia had violated international law. What this means for the arms trade.
Wars play a central role in increasing numbers of refugees worldwide. Is it time to think about a “destruction tax”?
The Obama and Trump administrations have supported a military coalition that has inflicted profound and deadly damage on Yemen. A human rights scholar says the US is complicit in genocide.
Trump claimed that ‘we would be punishing ourselves’ by using US arms sales to Saudi Arabia as a bargaining chip over the disappearance of Khashoggi. A look at the arms trade shows why he’s wrong.
Sweden has enacted what’s known as a feminist foreign policy, and Canada plans on doing the same. One fly in the ointment is both countries’ arms sales and how they’re at odds with feminism.
The Canadian deal to sell helicopters to the Philippines has finally been killed. What took so long, and why was it the Philippines, not Canada, that ultimately scrubbed the deal?
Congress is trying to curb the president’s ties to human rights abusers, harkening back to landmark legislation of the 1970s.
Shared economic and security interests have kept Saudi Arabia and the US close over the decades despite dramatic differences in the way the two countries are governed.
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Professorial Lecturer in Human Rights; Director, Ethics, Peace, and Human Rights MA Program, American University School of International Service
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Clinical Professor of International Business and Director, Center for Global Business Studies, Penn State
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Director of Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities; Associate Professor of International Relations, Michigan State University
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Professeur / Professor, Audencia
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Professor, American University School of International Service
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PhD Researcher, SOAS, University of London
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Graduate Student, McMaster University
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Associate Professor, McMaster University
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Research Associate, King's College London, King's College London
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Associate Professor, HEC Paris Business School
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Director: Centre for Military Studies, Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University
