The independent resource on global security
The Arms Trade with the Third World
ISBN 391-00-197-3
1971
Almqvist & Wiksell
- What are the economic forces behind arms exports?
- How has the supply of arms contributed to US and Soviet involvement in the Middle East conflict?
- Who supplied arms to whom in the Indo-Pakistani War? the June War of 1967? the Nigerian Civil War? the conflict in Southern Africa?
- Do military coups affect the demand for weapons?
- Can third world countries produce their own weapons?
- What are the obstacles to an agreement to halt the trade in arms?
These and many other questions are discussed in The Arms Trade with the Third World. This study brings together all the political, economic and military dimensions of the trade in weapons with third world countries. A study of the arms trade is crucial not merely because this is the route by which stocks of weapons in the third world are built up. It is also one important means by which the competition between rich countries is extended throughout the world and absorbs local disputes and wars.
Table of contents
Part I. General survey and proposals
1. General survey
2. Proposals concerning the arms trade
Part II. The suppliers
3. The United States
4. The Soviet Union
5. The United Kingdom
6. France
7. Italy
8. Canada
9. The Federal Republic of Germany
10. Japan
11. Sweden
12. Switzerland
13. The People's Republic of China
14. The economic pressures to export
Appendix 14.1. The cost of producing a typical military aircraft
Part III. The recipients
15. The Far East
16. The Indian Sub-Continent
17. The Middle East
18. North Africa
19. Sub-Saharan Africa
20. South Africa
21. Latin America
22. Domestic defence production in Third World countries
Part IV. Reference material
Appendix 1. Sources and methods
Appendix 2. Government statistics
Appendix 3. Trade statistics
Appendix 4. Maintenance and operating costs for certain types of war material
Appendix 5. Glossary of weapons
Appendix 6. Country registers
Appendix 7. Aggregate tables
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)/EDITORS
Frank Blackaby was Director of SIPRI between 1981–86.
Professor Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics.