The Global Politics of Arms Sales / / Andrew J. Pierre.

Marshaling a great deal of new information in a highly readable manner, the author explains the reasons for the dramatic expansion of arms sales during the past decade and clearly traces such trends as the rise in sophistication of weapons being sold so as to include the most advanced technologies,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1982
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 72
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Physical Description:1 online resource (374 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures. List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Part One. Dilemmas
  • Trends in Transfers
  • Uncertain Rationales for Arms Sales
  • Competing Foreign Policy Aims
  • Part Two. Suppliers
  • United States
  • Soviet Union
  • France
  • United Kingdom
  • The Restrictors: West Germany, Japan, Sweden, and Switzerland
  • New, Third World Suppliers
  • Part Three. Recipients
  • Middle East
  • Asia
  • Latin America
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Part Four. Restraints
  • New Significance of Arms Sales
  • The Need for International Management
  • Past Approaches to International Restraints
  • The Conventional Arms Transfer Talks with The Soviet Union
  • Forms of Multilateral Regulation
  • Priority to The European-American Dimension
  • East-West "Rules of The Game"
  • Third World Arms Industries- A Limited Role as Suppliers
  • Recipient Perspectives and Regional Approaches
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About The Author