Civil war and state support for conventional arms control

Tobias Risse

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2025, vol. 42, issue 1, 11-31

Abstract: Conventional arms control imposes costs and benefits on states in civil wars: it restricts their own armament and that of rebel groups. I argue that the benefits outweigh the costs because states design conventional arms control measures that primarily curb rebels’ armament. I investigate these arguments through regression analyses of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voting records and a content analysis of UNGA speeches. While I find a positive relationship between civil wars and support for conventional arms control in the aggregate, I also show that states in civil wars consider both the benefits and the costs of arms control.

Keywords: Arms control; arms trade; civil war; foreign policy; UN General Assembly (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1177/07388942231223422

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