The Global Spread of Arms: Political Economy of International Security

ISBN-13: 9780367318536 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

Frederic S Pearson

Opis

Today, despite the end of the cold war, more countries have more sophisticated weapons from more numerous suppliers than ever before. This is partly a product of continuing and growing conflicts?especially regional and interethnic ones?but it also reflects the political and economic difficulties of weaning public and private enterprise away from po

Spis treści

Global arms proliferation - past and present; the impetus to manufacture and acquire arms; arms transfers and world politics; controlling the spread of arms; conclusions - can the dilemmas be resolved?

O autorze

Frederic S. Pearson is director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies and professor of political science at Wayne State University.