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Cascade of Arms Managing Conventional Weapons Proliferation

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ISBN-10: 0815770634

ISBN-13: 9780815770633

Edition: 1997

Authors: Andrew Pierre

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Publication date: 11/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 468
Size: 1.00" wide x 1.00" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Patterns and Trends in Arms Transfers and Prospective Developments
The Conventional Arms Trade
The Subterranean Arms Trade: Black-Market Sales, Covert Operations and Ethnic Warfare
The Changing Economics of Arms Production and Sales
Advanced Industrialized Countries
Developing Countries
Arms Sales Policies and Practices of Major Suppliers
United States
Western Europe
Russia
China
Principal Purchasers and Recipient Regions, Including Opportunities for Regional Arms Control
The Middle East and the Persian Gulf: An Israeli Perspective
The Middle East and the Persian Gulf: An Arab Perspective
Asia-Pacific
South Asia
Arms Restraint: What Should Be Done?
"Conditionality": Linking Development Assistance to Military Expenditures
Toward an International Regime for Conventional Arms Sales
About the Authors
The World Peace Foundation
Index
Tables
Agreed Sales of Fighter Aircraft, 1987-92
Agreed Sales of Helicopters, 1987-92
Defense Spending by NATO's Big Four Countries, 1986-94
The Developing World's Arms Producers: Demonstrated Capabilities in 1960, 1970 and 1980
Demonstrated Capabilities of the Developing World's Arms Producers, Mid-1980s
Defense Industrialization in the Developing World: Number of Producers of Selected Equipment, 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990
Estimated Value of Conventional Weapons Production in Selected Developing Countries, 1965-90
Arms Production as a Proportion of Total Acquisition, Selected Countries, 1965-90
Regional Shares of the Value of Supplier Deliveries, 1977-84
European Defense Production, 1989
Employment in the European Defense Industries, 1989
European Military Exports by Destination, 1987-91
Soviet Transfers of Major Weapons, 1981-90
Exporters of Major Conventional Weapons, 1988-92
Chinese Exports of Major Conventional Weapons by Importing Region, 1987-91
Chinese Exports to the Third World, 1988-92
Arms Deliveries to Developing Nations and the World by Supplier, 1995
Arms Deliveries to the World by Suppliers, 1988-95
Figures
Changing Regional Percentage Shares of Total Deliveries of Major Conventional Weapons, 1984-95
Supplier Shares of Arms Deliveries to the Third World, 1977-84
Arms Exports to the Third World, Excluding Exports by the United States and the USSR
Total Defense Expenditures, India and Pakistan, 1970-95
Defense Expenditures as a Percent of Gross Domestic Product, India and Pakistan, 1970-94
Defense Expenditures, China and India, 1980-94
Value of Transfers of Major Weapons to India, Pakistan and Iran, 1983-90
Composition of India's and Pakistan's Air Forces, 1979-95
Composition of India's and Pakistan's Ground Forces--Armor and Artillery, 1979-92
India's and Pakistan's Blue-Water Capabilities, 1979-92
China's Nuclear Arms--Deployed Systems, 1980-95
Major Weapons Suppliers--Value of Transfers to and Share of India's and Pakistan's Markets, 1986-90