A Narrative and Analysis of the Arms Trade Treaty Process

The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty: A Process, Not An Event, Journal on Firearms and Public Policy, vol. 25 (Fall 2013), available in PDF only. "The ATT is ambiguous for a reason. There was no chance that all the world’s nations would ever have been able to negotiate a clear treaty, with careful definitions, regulating the entire world’s trade in conventional arms. Moreover, if they had been able to do so, it is very unlikely that such a treaty would have been acceptable to the United States, because it would almost certainly have sought to place unacceptable limits on civilian ownership."