The Arms Trade Treaty

847 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Gun safety due to gun violence essay

Internationally, many issues reside that cause harm to a majority of the world’s citizens. Many leaders design solutions that clearly benefit their “home” countries, resulting in unfair agreements that are soon dismissed. However, a treaty that was introduced on the second of April in 2013 dismisses this bias opinion and creates a pact that can be accepted by all. The Arms Trade Treaty was designed to unite the world in its entirety, and provide safer lifestyles for all residents. The treaty focuses on the construction, transportation, trade, and end location of arms. Conclusively, this treaty aims to resolve an international issue that jeopardizes citizens in the United States, Germany, Iraq, and all divisions of the world.
Traditionally, treaties target a selected group of countries based on current issues. The Arms Trade Treaty maintains focus on uniting every country for the protection of citizens. The ATT holds an objection of “regulating the international trade” (UNODA) of arms of all shapes and sizes. This includes, but does not limit it to, guns, battle tanks, training, and explosives. Additionally, this treaty requires the recording of all arms exports. In my opinion, this treaty has an ideal goal that would benefit our world’s society, if implemented correctly. The purposes of the ATT are sufficient and needed, and they must be maintained as quickly as possible.
Although this treaty seems flawless, it has been constructed based on our world’s current flaws. According to Oxfam International, millions suffer from indirect and direct occurrences of illegal and damaging arms trade. Additionally, many live a life of constant danger, which could diminish with the assistance of the ATT. The main problem lies in the scattere...

... middle of paper ...

...In order to be put into effect, 50 states must ratify the ATT in their country. This may seem like a insubstantial number, but currently, only 31 countries have done this. This is surprising, as 118 countries have shown support. The unanimous support and ratification that is required of this treaty, needs to be reached soon in order to begin the amazing process of saving lives and making this world a safer place.

Works Cited

(2014). Malta Ratifies Arms Trade Treaty. Malta Independent. Retrieved from http://www.independent.com.mt/mobile/2014-04-09/news/malta-ratifies-arms-trade-treaty-4572676096/
(2014). Why we need a global Arms Trade Treaty. Oxfam International. Retrieved from http://www.oxfam.org/en/campaigns/conflict/controlarms/why-we-need-global-arms-trade-treaty
UNODA. (2014). The Arms Trade Treaty. UNODA. Retrieved from http://www.un.org/disarmament/ATT/

Show More
Related

  • Security Threats and Trade Barriers

    7504 Words  | 16 Pages

    Just as Adam Smith supported the Navigation Acts in Great Britain to protect the navy (their chief means of defense; Smith 1776: 464), the United States has gone to great lengths to protect their chief means of defense: the technologically advanced electronics and machinery areas. The motive for these measures has not changed over the centuries. The desire to maintain superiority over other nations and to retain the ability to defend the sovereignty of the nation have remained an important aspect of both foreign and trade policy. It is the trade policy that we are most concerned with in this paper.

    Read More

  • The Treaty of Versailles

    1287 Words  | 3 Pages

    The Treaty of Versailles was a violation of Wilson’s ideals. The Treaty is one of the most important agreements (or disagreements) that shaped 20th century Europe socially and physically. Woodrow Wilson on January 22, 1917 in an address to the United States Senate called for a peace without victors, but the Treaty signed by the participating nations was everything but that. The blame for the war was placed on Germany and justified the reparations that were outlined by the treaty for the war. The terms of the treaty were very harsh to the Germans and they took on great resentment. It was a fragile peace agreement that would be used as fuel to keep hostilities going 20 years later.

    Read More

  • The Battle Between Gun Control and Gun Rights

    1116 Words  | 3 Pages

    Tushnet, Mark V. Out of Range: Why the Constitution Can't End the Battle over Guns. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. Print.

    Read More

  • America and China

    866 Words  | 2 Pages

    Globalization, a fundamentally constructive revolution, is the catalyst driving the current situation. On the international level, globalization creates jobs, promotes trade, and encourages cooperation between countries. The interconnected nature of national economies creates a net that not only helps sustain troubled economies, but actually discourages international hostilities by introducing an additional layer of reciprocity. Through globalizat...

    Read More

  • Feminism and how it enriches our IR theory

    1499 Words  | 3 Pages

    Understanding the World ‘We’ Live in’, International Affairs, Vol. 80, No. I, (2004) pp. 75-87.

    Read More

  • League Of Nations Essay

    1453 Words  | 3 Pages

    Origins for the cooperation amongst powers necessary to tackle international disputes can be traced back to the 19th century, however the formation of the League of Nations was eagerly prompted by the First World War. After the horrors in which the world observed, leaders merged together and rejoiced in the potential for a new international system. The League of Nations foremost objective was to secure peace through collective efforts of ‘peace-loving’ powers (Steans, Pettiford, & Diez, 2005, p. 31). President Woodrow Wilson was a lead proponent in the creation of such a body, suggesting it- within his message on the Conditions of Peace- as a means of ‘affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike’ (Wilson, 1918). The following year a detailed scheme was presented at the Versailles Peace Conference and the league was swiftly established with the addition of a permanent secretariat in Geneva. (Catterall, 1999, p. 50). The League was very much considered the ‘most daring and innovative proposal’ (Wilkinson, 2007, p. 85)

    Read More

  • A Constructivist View of North Korean Nuclear Proliferation

    2007 Words  | 5 Pages

    Wendt, Alexander. “Constructing International Politics.” International Security. Cambridge: President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. 71-81. Print.

    Read More

  • The Atomic Bomb Changed the World Forever

    2532 Words  | 6 Pages

    “International Agreements.” The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition. 1994: Columbia University Press. Lanouette, William. A. “Why We Dropped the Bomb.”

    Read More

  • It’s Time to Ban the Use of Landmines

    2042 Words  | 5 Pages

    Antipersonnel landmines kill thousands of people every year. Antipersonnel landmines do not recognize a cease-fire; they continue killing or maiming for many years after the conflict is over. Antipersonnel landmines do not discriminate between soldiers or civilians. On the contrary, more and more they are being used in an indiscriminate way, terrorizing civilians and transforming agricultural fields into killing fields. In addition, de-mining is a very slow and very expensive process, and after a war most countries are not prepared to cope with the constant health care demands imposed by the number of injured by landmines. Finally, landmines make it very difficult for refugees to go back to their cities and villages. As response to the landmine problem, the international community has come up with a treaty to ban landmines. On March 1, 1999, the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty came into effect; so far 134 countries have signed the treaty. Unfortunately, the U. S. is not one of them.

    Read More

  • Mongolia´s Stand on Weapons, Disarment and Outer Space

    673 Words  | 2 Pages

    This year’s topic under discussion for GA First are: Measures to Prevent Terrorists from Acquiring Weapons of Mass Destruction, Relationship Between Disarmament and Development, and Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space. The GA First Committee is pleased to be here today, surrounded by those who share our country’s common goals. Mongolia is dedicated to the promotion of international peace and security.

    Read More

  • Free Trade And Globalization Essay

    1577 Words  | 4 Pages

    In today’s global economy, free trade and globalization are deeply intertwined. Globalization makes free trade possible and vice versa. It is beyond doubt that as time goes by the speed at which international integration is increasing and reduction of barriers to free trade are decreasing have gone up. While there is some resistance against the forces of globalization and free trade (McMaken, 2016), most nations have come to accept it as a reality of the modern era. This large scale acceptance is generally regarded as progress towards a world with less conflict. Arguments in favor of free trade and globalization stem from a variety of interdisciplinary sources. This paper goes into the details of some arguments for free trade and globalization, and explains why Globalization and free trade reduce the prevalence of conflicts in the international arena, and promote peace, cooperation and disarmament

    Read More

  • The Realist Theory and The Outbreak of World War I

    1279 Words  | 3 Pages

    Mingst, K. (2011). Essentials of international relations. (5th ed., p. 70). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.

    Read More

  • The Paris Peace Treaties

    1636 Words  | 4 Pages

    To the subject and passive onlooker, those meticulous organizers of the Paris Peace Treaties allowed for an unfortunate amount of flaws to enter their task of creating a treaty that could satisfy all of the nations of not only Europe but of the world as well equally. Yet one must attempt to put that passiveness behind and admit that those of the time of post World War I had truly no idea what was to come of their decisions. Thus, the decisions of these toilers of the Paris Peace Treaties undoubtedly made a medley of wrong judgments that were virtually unforeseen at the time. The first of these mistakes was that they looked over the problems that the innumerable ethnic groups of Europe would cause. Second to be overlooked was France, still highly intimidated and insecure of a Germany that it wanted to see completely annihilated and rendered powerless.

    Read More

  • Peace is More than the Absence of War

    2217 Words  | 5 Pages

    The lives and prosperity of millions of people depend on peace and, in turn, peace depends on treaties - fragile documents that must do more than end wars. Negotiations and peace treaties may lead to decades of cooperation during which disputes between nations are resolved without military action and economic cost, or may prolong or even intensify the grievances which provoked conflict in the first place. In 1996, as Canada and the United States celebrated their mutual boundary as the longest undefended border in the world, Greece and Turkey nearly came to blows over a rocky island so small it scarcely had space for a flagpole.1 Both territorial questions had been raised as issues in peace treaties. The Treaty of Ghent in 1815 set the framework for the resolution of Canadian-American territorial questions. The Treaty of Sevres in 1920, between the Sultan and the victorious Allies of World War I, dismantled the remnants of the Ottoman Empire and distributed its territories. Examination of the terms and consequences of the two treaties clearly establishes that a successful treaty must provide more than the absence of war.

    Read More

  • The Conflict Between the Ukraine and Russia

    1600 Words  | 4 Pages

    Baylis, Smith and Patricia Owens. 2014. The 'Standard' of the 'Standard'. The globalization of world politics: An introduction to international relations. London.

    Read More

More about The Arms Trade Treaty

Open Document