Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
9-24-2024
Abstract
The United States “cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of weapons of war”. The United States Conventional Arms Transfer (“CAT”) Policy establishes the executive branch’s priorities and reasoning for the export of conventional arms to other nations. At its inception in 1979, CAT Policy was a “policy of self-imposed restraint” with regards to arm sales and transfers to any nation. It has since evolved, with each subsequent administration having its own view of the role the United States should play in championing peace. The Biden Administration has made significant progress in advancing the Policy’s original intent of withholding military equipment sales to protect against atrocities, especially considering the Trump Administration’s CAT Policy, which diverged significantly from this intent.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice website on September 24, 2024. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above.
Recommended Citation
Coppola, Jeremy, "Shifting Priorities: A Comparative Assessment of The Trump and Biden Administrations’ Conventional Arms Policies" (2024). Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (ERSJ) Blog. 83.
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/ersj-blog/83
