1. The small arms agenda

2. Today’s questions
What problems do small arms pose for international politics?
Why have they become such a central concern in policy and academic debate?

3. Today’s class GBAV video: note-taking exercise
Group work with flipcharts: what problems do small arms pose for international politics?
Analysis: why have small arms become so central to debate about the arms trade and its control?

4. Global Burden of Armed Violence
What, if anything, is distinctive about the trade in, use and effects of small arms and light weapons?

5. Small arms, big problem
Explosion of interest in SALW in 1990s: “the real WMD”
Changed normative space, not change in weapons flows/use per se

6. Tropes of new wars; failed/fragile states; human security; anti-terrorism
Merging of security and development policy

7. The spectrum of armed violence
Shift away from discussion of “war” and “armed conflict”, towards “armed violence”
Combination of supply- and demand-side measures
Combination of coercive and consensual measures

8. What is excluded? Violence deemed to be internal to the South?
Northern development and security actors merely “responding”?
Imperial feedback loops?

9. Next 2 weeks: the ATT
Next week: regular class, three readings. In what ways might the ATT institutionalise hierarchy?
Week after: ATT simulation!