The Global Arms Trade (eBook, PDF)

A Handbook
Redaktion: Tan, Andrew

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Global Arms Trade is a timely, comprehensive and in-depth study of this topic, a phenomenon which has continued to flourish despite the end of the Cold War and the preoccupation with global terrorism after 11 September 2001. It provides a clear description and analysis of the demand for, and supply of, modern weapons systems, and assess key issues of concern. This book will be especially useful to scholars, policy analysts, those in the arms industry, defence professionals, students of international relations and security studies, media professionals, government officials, and those generally interested in the arms trade.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136969546
• Artikelnr.: 41319648

Autorenporträt

Andrew T. H. Tan is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia. Educated at Sydney University, Cambridge University and the National University of Singapore, Andrew is consulted by various governments and think tanks on security, defence and international relations issues. He was formerly Senior Lecturer, Defence Studies, at King's College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Watchfield. To-date, he has written many articles on various security issues, and is also the author, editor or co-editor of 15 books, including The Arms Race in Asia (London: Routledge, 2014), East and Southeast Asia: International Relations and Security Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2013), Security Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: The USA's Second Front in Southeast Asia (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 - nominated for the Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award), US Strategy Against Global Terrorism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), The Global Arms Trade (London: Routledge, 2010), A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007), and others. His forthcoming book is an edited volume entitled A Handbook of US-China Relations (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, forthcoming in 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Introduction 1. An Overview of Global Patterns Andrew Tan 2.
Arms Spending and Procurement in Southeast Asia Andrew Tan 3. Arms
Modernization in Asia Desmond Ball Section 2: Arms Modernization After the
Cold War 4. China's Arms Modernization You Ji 5. India's Arms Build-up
Harsh V Pant 6. Japan's Arms Procurement after the Cold War Brad Williams
7. Arming North Korea Yong-Sup Han 8. Arms Modernization in the Middle East
Riad Attar 9. Israel's Defence Spending and Procurement after Camp David
Efraim Inbar 10. Iran's Defence Spending and Arms Procurement Efraim Kam
11. US Arms Procurement after the End of the Cold War David Gold 12. Post
Cold War Defence Procurement in Europe Andrew James 13. Defence Spending
and Procurement in Post-Communist Russia Alexander Pikayev 14. Arms
Modernization in Latin America Mark Bromley and Inigo Guevara 15. Arms
Proliferation in Africa Martin R. Rupiya Section 3: The Arms Industry After
the Cold War 16. The Global Arms Trade after the Cold War Siemon T. Wezeman
17. The Globalization of the Arms Industry Richard Bitzinger 18. Defence
Restructuring and Consolidation in Europe Michael Brzoska 19. The US
Defence Industry After the Cold War Elisabeth Skons 20. The UK Defence
Industry in an Age of Globalization Samuel Perlo-Freeman 21. Israel's
Defence Industry Yaacov Lifschitz Section 4: Key Issues in the Global Arms
Trade 22. The Military Industrial Complex J. Paul Dunne 23. Defence
Spending and Development/Modernization J. Paul Dunne 24. Post-Cold War
Control of Conventional Arms Sibylle Bauer 25. Insurgencies and their
Impact on Arms Procurement Isaiah Wilson 26. The Privatization of Force
Malcolm Patterson 27. Future War-The Shape of Arms to Come Malcolm Davis
Section 4: Conclusions 28. Conclusions Andrew Tan