Asif Efrat

Governing Guns, Preventing Plunder (eBook, ePUB)

International Cooperation against Illicit Trade

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From human trafficking to the smuggling of small arms to the looting of antiquities, illicit trade poses significant threats to international order. So why is it so difficult to establish international cooperation against illicit trade? Governing Guns, Preventing Plunder offers a novel, thought-provoking answer to this crucial question. Conventional wisdom holds that criminal groups are the biggest obstacle to efforts to suppress illicit trade. Contrarily, Asif Efrat explains how legitimate actors, such as museums that acquire looted antiquities, seek to hinder these regulatory efforts. Yet such attempts to evade regulation fuel international political conflicts between governments demanding action against illicit trade and others that are reluctant to cooperate. The book offers a framework for understanding the domestic origins of these conflicts and how the distribution of power shapes their outcome. Through this framework, Efrat explains why the interests of governments vary across countries, trades, and time. In a fascinating empirical analysis, he solves a variety of puzzles: Why is the international regulation of small arms much weaker than international drug control? What led the United States and Britain to oppose the efforts against the plunder of antiquities, and why did they ultimately join these efforts? How did American pressure motivate Israel to tackle sex trafficking? Efrat's findings will change the way we think about illicit trade, offering valuable insights to scholars, activists, and policymakers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199996186
• Artikelnr.: 38164621

Autorenporträt

Asif Efrat is Assistant Professor of Government at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. He received his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University and has taught at Cornell Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1 Introduction
* 2 Theoretical Framework
* 3 Governing Guns: International Cooperation against the Illicit Trade
in Small Arms
* 4 Preventing Plunder: International Cooperation against the Illicit
Trade in Antiquities
* 5:Protecting Persons:International Cooperation against Human
Trafficking
* 6: Extensions: Opposing Opium, Combating Counterfeits
* 7: Conclusion
* References