The Arms Industry in Developing Nations: History and Post-Cold War Assessment

Jurgen Brauer

Chapter 5 in Arming the South, 2002, pp 101-127 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Even before the end of the cold war, the study of the arms industry in developing nations was ill-attended to. It was, and still is, more fashionable to study military expenditure and their impact on economic development and growth in general rather than to study developing nations’ arms industry in particular. Part of the explanation is that some, although often dubious, data on military expenditure and economic growth is readily available and can be subjected to statistical analysis with relative ease. In contrast, the detailed case study of an arms industry requires field work — in an industry that for obvious reasons always has much to hide.

Keywords: Military Expenditure; Generalize Industrialization; Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; Peace Economic; Disarmament Agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230501256_6

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