New paper: How do countries involved in civil war perceive arms control?

Tobias Risse’s article published in Research & Politics provides systematic evidence on how governments directly involved in civil war perceive conventional arms control. Using data on states’ rhetorical positions on conventional arms control in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and on enduring internal rivalries (EIRs), he finds that acute intrastate conflicts lead states to view conventional arms control primarily as a matter of national security rather than a humanitarian issue.