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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 72Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1982Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (374 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691614731
  • 9781400854271
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 382.4535582 382/.4535582
LOC classification:
  • HD9743.A2 P5
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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, and the shift in sales to unstable parts of the Third World.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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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

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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, and the shift in sales to unstable parts of the Third World.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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