Exam 5: Weapons Trafficking

Which of the following influence arm prices?

Which of the following countries are not a party to the Ottawa Treaty (Mine Ban Treaty)?

What is the definition of the following word: -One-time deals.

Arms prices in a given country are reduced with higher military spending in neighboring countries.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) the United States and Russia accounted for 10% of all arms exports.

How many of the 49 major conflicts in the 1990s were fought with small arms as the primary form of weaponry?

Identify the factors that influence and are influenced by arms sales.

What is the definition of the following word: -Small arms.

Which of the following are groups that buy black market weapons?

These markets are clearly illegal sales of weapons that neither the seller nor the buyer should possess.

In 2014, what nation was the top exporter of arms?

Within these markets, legal arms are sold legally by one party to another, but the buyer then re-sells those weapons to illegitimate third parties.

In 2014, what nation was the top importer of arms?

The sales of SALW are valued at billions of dollars (USD) per year.

Large-scale sellers generally do not sell large amounts of arms over the open market.

Black markets are the most difficult market to control.

Which of the following do NOT buy weapons from the black market?

Which of the following countries abstained from the Arms Trade Treaty?

Non-state actors closely associated with state agencies buy black market weapons.

Because of the durability of small-arms, users are less likely to trade old weapons for newer weapons than they are to discard or destroy them.