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UK arms exports: getting it right at home

As UK delegates head into the final weeks of negotiations at the UN Diplomatic Conference on an Arms Trade Treaty, the Committees on Arms Export Controls Scrutiny of Arms Exports (2012) highlights the effects of domestic export decisions on the wider world and the importance of first getting it ri

By Patricia Lewis

/ 20 Jul 2012

The NPT review conference: no bargains in the UN basement

If it is not easy to sum up the 2005 review conference of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) from 2-27 May in New York, it is only because there are

By Patricia Lewis

/ 31 May 2005

The UN and Iraq: time to get serious

The world is poised on the edge of another Gulf war. It will be the first war to be fought over the possession of weapons of mass destruction. Despite countless

By Patricia Lewis

/ 14 Mar 2003