Military Spending and Global Security: Humanitarian and Environmental Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367493394 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 146 str.

Jordi Calvo Rufanges

Opis

The book draws from prior knowledge and research on military expenditure but introduces an all-encompassing, in-depth and original analysis of military spending as a key and often overlooked factor of global instability, delving into the present and future consequences of its perpetual growth, as well as, confronting the reasoning behind it.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Trends in global military expenditure: drivers of increases and causes of concerns 2. Military expenditure, arms transfer and armed conflicts 3. Military spending, foreign military operations and counter-terrorism 4. Empire, US military spending and campaigning for a moral budget 5. Militarisation of the European Union: fresh money for the military industry 6. Cost of nuclear weapons 7. Military spending and climate change 8. Peace movement work on military spending 9. Conclusion

O autorze

Jordi Calvo Rufanges is vice-president of the International Peace Bureau, coordinator of the Global Campaign on Military Spending, professor of armed conflicts, defence economy and international relations and coordinator and researcher of the Centre Delàs of Peace Studies, Barcelona, Spain.