TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Powers of the gun: process and possibility in global small arms control
JO  - International politics (The Hague)
A1  - Bourne, Mike
SP  - 441
EP  - 461
VL  - 55
IS  - 3-4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1384-5748
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41311-017-0080-6
ID  - ref1
ER  -