Cascade of arms : managing conventional weapons proliferation /

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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ; Cambridge, Mass. : World Peace Foundation, c1997.
Description:xi, 466 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2797778
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Other authors / contributors:Pierre, Andrew J.
ISBN:0815770642
0815770634 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1.. Introduction
  • Part 1. Patterns and Trends in Arms Transfers and Prospective Developments
  • 2.. The Conventional Arms Trade
  • 3.. The Subterranean Arms Trade: Black-Market Sales, Covert Operations and Ethnic Warfare
  • Part 2. The Changing Economics of Arms Production and Sales
  • 4.. Advanced Industrialized Countries
  • 5.. Developing Countries
  • Part 3. Arms Sales Policies and Practices of Major Suppliers
  • 6.. United States
  • 7.. Western Europe
  • 8.. Russia
  • 9.. China
  • Part 4. Principal Purchasers and Recipient Regions, Including Opportunities for Regional Arms Control
  • 10.. The Middle East and the Persian Gulf: An Israeli Perspective
  • 11.. The Middle East and the Persian Gulf: An Arab Perspective
  • 12.. Asia-Pacific
  • 13.. South Asia
  • Part 5. Arms Restraint: What Should Be Done?
  • 14.. "Conditionality": Linking Development Assistance to Military Expenditures
  • 15.. Toward an International Regime for Conventional Arms Sales
  • About the Authors
  • The World Peace Foundation
  • Index
  • Tables
  • 2-1.. Agreed Sales of Fighter Aircraft, 1987-92
  • 2-2.. Agreed Sales of Helicopters, 1987-92
  • 4-1.. Defense Spending by NATO's Big Four Countries, 1986-94
  • 5-1.. The Developing World's Arms Producers: Demonstrated Capabilities in 1960, 1970 and 1980
  • 5-2.. Demonstrated Capabilities of the Developing World's Arms Producers, Mid-1980s
  • 5-3.. Defense Industrialization in the Developing World: Number of Producers of Selected Equipment, 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990
  • 5-4.. Estimated Value of Conventional Weapons Production in Selected Developing Countries, 1965-90
  • 5-5.. Arms Production as a Proportion of Total Acquisition, Selected Countries, 1965-90
  • 6-1.. Regional Shares of the Value of Supplier Deliveries, 1977-84
  • 7-1.. European Defense Production, 1989
  • 7-2.. Employment in the European Defense Industries, 1989
  • 7-3.. European Military Exports by Destination, 1987-91
  • 8-1.. Soviet Transfers of Major Weapons, 1981-90
  • 9-1.. Exporters of Major Conventional Weapons, 1988-92
  • 9-2.. Chinese Exports of Major Conventional Weapons by Importing Region, 1987-91
  • 9-3.. Chinese Exports to the Third World, 1988-92
  • 15-1.. Arms Deliveries to Developing Nations and the World by Supplier, 1995
  • 15-2.. Arms Deliveries to the World by Suppliers, 1988-95
  • Figures
  • 2-1.. Changing Regional Percentage Shares of Total Deliveries of Major Conventional Weapons, 1984-95
  • 6-1.. Supplier Shares of Arms Deliveries to the Third World, 1977-84
  • 9-1.. Arms Exports to the Third World, Excluding Exports by the United States and the USSR
  • 13-1.. Total Defense Expenditures, India and Pakistan, 1970-95
  • 13-2.. Defense Expenditures as a Percent of Gross Domestic Product, India and Pakistan, 1970-94
  • 13-3.. Defense Expenditures, China and India, 1980-94
  • 13-4.. Value of Transfers of Major Weapons to India, Pakistan and Iran, 1983-90
  • 13-5.. Composition of India's and Pakistan's Air Forces, 1979-95
  • 13-6.. Composition of India's and Pakistan's Ground Forces--Armor and Artillery, 1979-92
  • 13-7.. India's and Pakistan's Blue-Water Capabilities, 1979-92
  • 13-8.. China's Nuclear Arms--Deployed Systems, 1980-95
  • 13-9.. Major Weapons Suppliers--Value of Transfers to and Share of India's and Pakistan's Markets, 1986-90