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.
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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*List of Figures. List of Tables, pg.
ix*Preface, pg. xi*Trends in Transfers, pg. 8*Uncertain Rationales for Arms
Sales, pg. 14*Competing Foreign Policy Aims, pg. 28*United States, pg.
45*Soviet Union, pg. 73*France, pg. 83*United Kingdom, pg. 100*The
Restrictors: West Germany, Japan, Sweden, and Switzerland, pg. 109*New, Third
World Suppliers, pg. 123*Middle East, pg. 136*Asia, pg. 210*Latin America,
pg. 232*Sub-Saharan Africa, pg. 255*New Significance of Arms Sales, pg.
275*The Need for International Management, pg. 278*Past Approaches to
International Restraints, pg. 281*The Conventional Arms Transfer Talks with
The Soviet Union, pg. 285*Forms of Multilateral Regulation, pg. 291*Priority
to The European-American Dimension, pg. 296*East-West "Rules of The Game",
pg. 301*Third World Arms Industries- A Limited Role as Suppliers, pg.
303*Recipient Perspectives and Regional Approaches, pg. 306*Notes, pg.
313*Index, pg. 337*About The Author, pg. 353
