Arms Transfer Limitations And Third World Security

Is the arms trade totally uncontrolled? What are the main obstacles to limitations on arms transfers? What can be learned from past attempts at arms transfer control? This book, which completes SIPRI's trilogy on the facts and implications of Third World build-up of major conventional weapons, assesses past efforts, current proposals and future possibilities to limit the transfer of weapons and military technology to Third World countries. It is a companion to the two SIPRI volumes, Arms Production in the Third World (1986) and Arms Transfers to the Third World 1971-85 (OUP, 1987)

Case studies of the defence industry in developing countries and newly industrializing countries - covers the political development context, military expenditures and military research, employment and production, types of weapons and military equipment, economic implications of weapons exports and relationships with foreign policy, etc.; considers the UN weapons embargo on South Africa R. Bibliography, diagrams, graphs, references, statistical tables.

This book surveys the broad terrain covered by the concept of ''the security dilemma'' and points out landmarks along the route proceeding from proliferation to economic interests, showing that the arms trade is built into development of both industrial technology and political competition.

In October 1987, the Institute organized a conference on International Transfer of Conventional Arms, comprised of experts participating in discussions on the following themes: the nature of international arms, the motives that drive states to supply them, the motives of recipient states, Canada's role in the system, and the prospects and problems associated with controlling the trade in conventional arms. This report summarizes these discussions.

Provides a conceptual framework for evaluating how arms imports or exports lead to dependence, citing empirical data to substantiate theoretical insights. Acidic paper; no index. Cloth edition ($29.95) not seen. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR