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9 sie 2023 · All industries have economic features and the question we address here is, what are the distinctive economic features of arms producers and industries? The chapter starts by defining arms markets, some of the key facts about such markets and their distinctive economic features.
9 sie 2023 · Arms producers and industries will survive so long as nation states face threats to their existence. Threats can be internal through civil wars, rebellions and terrorism or external through other nations or external groups threatening the existence of a nation state.
The arms trade is one of the world’s most successful corporate enterprises. Not only has it created an economic system that grows regardless, it has normalised war and security responses to every social crisis.
What are the facts about the world’s arms industries? What is known, what is not known and what do we need to know for making sensible policy choices about arms industries?
21 wrz 2021 · We distinguish five main categories within the markets of military and dual-use goods and services, comprising weapons of mass destruction, major weapon systems, small arms and light weapons, dual-use goods, and services. Per category, papers are ordered by research type and methodology.
This chapter addresses arms trafficking in four sections: the nature and extent of the harm; the structure of arms trafficking (considered in terms of source, transit and demand); regulation and control; and finally a discussion about arms trafficking as business enterprise.
1 sty 2022 · Drawing on a political economy model of arms supply, we propose a new network-oriented explanation for the worldwide transactions of major conventional weapons in the period after World War II.
