@article{ref1,
title="Powers of the gun: process and possibility in global small arms control",
journal="International politics (The Hague)",
year="2018",
author="Bourne, Mike",
volume="55",
number="3-4",
pages="441-461",
abstract="Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) are the principal tools of armed violence, but the development of a global 'regime' has been a fragmented and fragile process that reinforces sovereignty more than it regulates violence. This article argues that rather than a settled regime, the global processes on SALW are better understood as a 'global assemblage'. Drawing on new materialism and process philosophy, the article does not seek to explain a regime through power but to explain power through its assemblage. It shows how powers are produced as a global collective for action on SALW is composed. This composition of powers operates not only by producing agreements, but by creating and proliferating the possibilities to disagree, re-composing the meanings of decision and consensus, and generating objects for cooperation that constitute particular modes of global action that render guns governable.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1384-5748",
doi="10.1057/s41311-017-0080-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41311-017-0080-6"
}