This book, first published in 1980, presents a comprehensive and detailed look at the problem of international militarisation. It examines the key issues, the meaning of the problem, the international context and the spread of militarism to the Third World, its fast growth and dangerous implications.
This book, first published in 1980, presents a comprehensive and detailed look at the problem of international militarisation. It examines the key issues, the meaning of the problem, the international context and the spread of militarism to the Third World, its fast growth and dangerous implications – including to the development of often poorer countries.
Part
1. Introduction Part
2. The Global Dimension
1. Militarism and
Militarisation in Contemporary International Relations Marek Thee
2.
Militarism: the Issues Today Michael T. Klare
3. The New International
Military Order: a Threat to Human Security Jan Øberg Part
3. Meaning of
Militarism
4. Militarism, Its Dimensions and Corollaries: an Attempt at
Conceptual Clarification Kjell Skjelsbaek
5. Militarism and Underdevelopment
Ulrich Albrecht
6. What is Militarism? Ernie Regehr
7. National Security:
Propaganda or Legitimate Concern? Robert D. Matthews
8. The Socio-Class
Determinants of Militarism Ejub Kuuk
9. The Critique of Militarism in
Soviet Studies Julian Lider Part
4. The Military in the Third World
10.
Militarism Dynamics in the Contemporary Context of Periphery Capitalism
Dieter Senghaas
11. Militarisation and Human Rights in the Third World
Richard Falk
12. The Significance of Military Technology Mary H. Kaldor
13.
Arms Trade and Transfer of Military Technology to Third World Countries Signe
Landgren-Bäckström
14. Arms Transfers and Dependency in the Third World Miles
D. Wolpin
15. Local Wars 1945-76 Itsvan Kende
16. The Military Expenditures
of Less Developed Nations as a Proportion of their State Budgets: a Research
Note Milton Leitenberg and Nicole Ball Part
5. Legal, Social and Cultural
Spheres
17. Militarisation with a Global Reach: a Challenge to Sovereignty,
Security and the International Legal Order Asbjørn Eide
18. The Causes and
Correlates of Western Militarism William Eckhardt
19. Militarism: Cultural
Dimensions of Militarisation Malvern Lumsden Part
6. Appendices Appendix
1.
World Military Expenditures Appendix
2. World-Wide Military Coups since 1945:
a Short Note on Data Collection Appendix
3. Threats of the Use of Nuclear
Weapons Since World War II: an Introductory Note
Asbjørn Eide and Marek Thee
