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Comparing Arms Transfer Regulations of the Interwar and Post-war Periods
On Monday 19 March, the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms
Transfer will host a workshop entitled “Comparing Arms Transfer Regulations of the Interwar
and Post-war Periods”. It will be co-hosted by the Arms and Civil Society Research Forum.
In this seminar, Dr. Daniel Stahl, Research Associate at the Friedrich Schiller University of
Jena (Germany), will analyse how policies to regulate the international arms trade via international
law changed from the interwar to the post-war period. He argues that the main difference is found
in how the dangers of an unregulated arms transfer were perceived. In the interwar period, recipient-
and producer-centred interpretations competed. According to the former, the question of whether
a certain arms transfer posed a threat depended on who was acquiring the arms. The latter maintained
that it depended on who was producing and exporting the arms. After the Second World War, only
the recipient-centred interpretation persisted. Stahl explains the disappearance of the producer-centred
interpretation and analyses the effects this shift had on how norms for international arms trade
were designed.
Date and time
Monday 19 March 2018, 6:30PM-8:30PM (Venue opens at 6:00PM)
Venue
Room 1095, 9th Floor, Liberty Tower, Meiji University
Map
Entry fee
Free
Seating capacity
Maximum 40 seats
Registration
Pre-register before 18 March 2018 at the link below. We will close the registration when the number of applicants reaches the capacity. Your information will be kept confidential by the Arms and Civil Society Research Forum and will be used to provide you with information on its events.
Language
The seminar will be held in English ONLY without translation.
Sponsor
Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer
Co-sponsor
Arms and Civil Society Research Forum
Panelists
| Speakers | Dr. Daniel Stahl, Coordinator of the Study Group Human Rights in the 20th Century and Research Associate at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
|---|---|
| Chair | Dr. Tamara Enomoto, Research Fellow, Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer |
About the Speaker
Dr. Daniel Stahl is currently working on a project on the arms trade and international
law. His other areas of research include the history of human rights and European-Latin American
relations. Since 2016, he has served as editor of the online portal Quellen zur Geschichte der
Menschenrechte (Sources on Human Rights History), www.geschichte-menschenrechte.de. In 2015 and
2016, he held fellowships at Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at the Graduate
Institute Geneva and the German Historical Institute in London. In 2013, he received the Opus-Primum
Award from the Volkswagen Foundation for his book on the hunt for Nazis in South America. From
2009 to 2011, he held a fellowship at the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Previously, he was a Research
Assistant to the Independent Commission of Historians on the History of the German Foreign Office.
*This seminar is hosted by the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global
Arms Transfer, and co-hosted by the Arms and Civil Society Research Forum. It is supported
by the Forum for the History of Armaments Industry and Arms Transfer, and is partially
funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
(MEXT)-supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities,
2015–2019 and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP16K17075 (Post-Cold War Conventional Arms Control
in Historical Context: Towards Collaboration between Security Studies and History).
