Controlling weapons circulation in a postcolonial militarised world

What are the politics of, and prospects for, contemporary weapons control? Human rights and humanitarian activists and scholars celebrate the gains made in the UN Arms Trade Treaty as a step towards greater human security. Critics counter that the treaty represents an accommodation with global militarism. Taking the tensions between arms transfer control and militarism as my starting point, I argue that the negotiating process and eventual treaty text demonstrate competing modes of militarism. Expressed in terms of sovereignty, political economy, or human security, all three modes are underpinned by ongoing imperial relations: racial, gendered and classed relations of asymmetry and hierarchy that persist despite formal sovereign equality. This means human security is a form of militarism rather than the antithesis of it. Drawing on primary sources from negotiations and participant observation with actors involved in the campaign for the ATT, the argument challenges the idea that human security has scored a victory over militarism. It also complicates our understanding of the nature of the accommodation with it, demonstrating the transformation as well as entrenchment of contemporary militarism. The argument reframes the challenges for controlling weapons circulation, placing the necessity for feminist, postcolonial anti-militarist critique front and centre

The Voyage of Captain Don Felipe Gonzalez

Transcribed, Translated, and Edited by Bolton Glanvill Corney from the official MS. records preserved in the General Collection oft he Archives of the Indies, at Sevilla, the Hydrographic Office of the Ministry of the Navy, and the library of the Royal Academy of History, at Madrid. The Hakluyt Society, Cambridge, 1908. DESPATCH No. 396 from the viceroy of Peru, to The Secretary of State for the Indies .</p

The Fijians; a study of the decay of custom,

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The voyage of Captain Don Felipe González in the ship of the line San Lorenzo, with the frigate Santa Rosalia in company, to Easter Island in 1770-1. Preceded by an extract from Mynheer Jacob Roggeveen's official log of his discovery of and visit to Easter Island in 1722.

Includes index.Bibliography: p. [145]-158.narrative of Roggeveen's visit to Easter Isalnd. II. Note on Don Manuel de Amat's successor as viceroy of Peru. III. Extract from a comtemporary (unsigned) letter relating to Don Felipe Gonzalez's voyage. IV. Extract from an autograph hournal by Lieut. George Peard of H. M. S. Blossom, 1825.Introductory note by Admiral Sir C. A. G. Bridge.--Introduction.--I. Extract from the official log of Mr. Jacob Roggeveen, in so far as it relates to Easter Island.--II. Journals, royal commands, minutes, and despatches, relating to the voyage of the San Lorenzo [under the command of Don Felipe Gonzalez y Haedo] and Santa Rosalia to Easter Island in 1770.--III. Journal of the principal occurrences during the voyage of the frigate Santa Rosalia from El Callao de Lima to the Isalnd of David, and thence to San Carlos de Chiloe, in the year 1770; by an officer of the said frigate [probably Don Francisco de Agüera y Infanzon, chief pilot]--IV. Narrative of the expedition undertaken by order of His Excellency Don Manuel de Amat, viceroy of Peru, in the ship San Lorenzo and the frigate Santa Rosalia, from the Harbour of El Callao de Lima to the Island of David, in 1770 [probably from the pen of Sub-Lieut. Don Juan Hervé, first pilot, or senior navigating officer, of the San Lorenzo]--Appendices I: Behrens'Mode of access: Internet