Arms Supply to the Third World — Models and Explanations

1 March 1977

journal article
review article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies

Vol. 15 (1) , 91-103
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00014506

Abstract

Summary This article has pointed out the increasing importance of the arms trade in the contemporary international system, and has reviewed critically the essential scholarly works devoted to this topic. Arguing that most of the existing literature is either descriptive or only very partially explanatory, I have suggested a set of five requirements for a satisfactory understanding. Following an analysis of the relationships between these ideal criteria and segments of the theoretically oriented literature, I have outlined an original, though preliminary, model for a systematic analysis of arms supply as an international political phenomenon

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