The Global Arms Trade: A Handbook

416 Pages·2010·2.521 MB·English

by  Andrew T. H. Tan (editor)

The Global Arms Trade
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The Global Arms Trade
A handbook
Editor: Andrew T. H. Tan
First published 2010 by Routledge
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Contents
List of figures viii
List of tables ix
The editor and contributors xi
Acknowledgements xix
Foreword xx
Abbreviations xxi
PARTI
Introduction 1
1 The global arms trade 3
ANDREWT.H.TAN
PARTII
Arms modernization after the Cold War 13
2 Defence spending and procurement trends in South-east Asia 15
ANDREWT.H.TAN
3 Arms modernization in Asia: an emerging complex arms race 30
DESMONDBALL
4 Friends in need or comrades in arms: the dilemma in the Sino-Russian
weapons business 52
YOUJI
5 India’s arms acquisition: devoid of a strategic orientation 65
HARSHV.PANT
6 Japan’s arms procurement after the Cold War 78
BRADWILLIAMS
7 Arming North Korea 91
YONG-SUPHAN
8 Arms modernization in the Middle East 103
RIADA.ATTAR
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9 Iran’s defence spending and arms procurement 123
EPHRAIMKAM
10 Post-Cold War defence procurement in Europe 133
ANDREWD.JAMESANDTHOMASTEICHLER
11 Defence spending and procurement in post-Communist Russia 151
ALEXANDERA.PIKAYEV
12 Arms modernization in Latin America 166
MARKBROMLEYANDIÑIGOGUEVARA
13 The global arms trade: challenges for Africa? 178
MARTINRUPIYA
PARTIII
The arms industry after the Cold War 191
14 The global arms trade after the Cold War 193
SIEMONT.WEZEMAN
15 Globalization revisited: internationalizing armaments production 208
RICHARDA.BITZINGER
16 Defence industry restructuring and consolidation in Europe 221
MICHAELBRZOSKA
17 The US defence industry after the Cold War 235
ELISABETHSKÖNS
18 The United Kingdom arms industry in a globalized world 250
SAMPERLO-FREEMAN
19 Defence industries in Israel 266
YAACOVLIFSHITZ
PARTIV
Key issues in the global arms trade 279
20 The military industrial complex 281
J.PAULDUNNEANDELISABETHSKÖNS
21 Defence spending and development 293
J.PAULDUNNEANDMEHMETUYE
22 Post-Cold War control of conventional arms 306
SIBYLLEBAUER
23 Insurgencies and the impact on arms procurement 319
ISAIAHWILSON,III
Contents vii
24 Private military and security companies and the international trade in small
arms and light weapons 332
MALCOLMHUGHPATTERSON
25 Future war: the shape of arms to come 344
MALCOLMR.DAVIS
Selected reading 358
Index 369
Figures
8.1 Algerian military expenditure 1962–2006 105
8.2 Moroccan military expenditure 1960–2005 106
8.3 Tunisian military expenditure 1961–2005 107
8.4 Egyptian military expenditure 1960–2006 111
8.5 Jordanian military expenditure 1969–2003 112
8.6 Saudi Arabian military expenditure 1968–2006 114
8.7 Iranian military expenditure 1987–2004 118
10.1 Equipment expenditure of Western EU NATO countries 1988–2007 138
10.2 Equipment expenditure of selected EU NATO countries 1988–2007 139
10.3 Equipment expenditure of selected EU NATO countries 1988–2007 139
10.4 Changes in expenditure on equipment and personnel in comparison with
previous year of EU NATO countries 1989–2007 140
17.1 US outlays on national defence, procurement and RDT&E 236
Tables
2.1 Military expenditure by country (local currency) 1997–2006 16
2.2 Military expenditure by country (US$) 1997–2006 17
2.3 Military assets of the South-east Asian states (1975) 18
2.4 Military assets of the South-east Asian states (1990) 19
2.5 Military assets of the South-east Asian states (2007) 19
3.1 Asia’s share of world defence expenditure, 1984 and 1994 31
3.2 East Asia, South Asia and Australasia: defence budgets 1998, 2001 and
2006 40
3.3 The military balance, North-east Asia, 2001 and 2006 41
3.4 Estimates of the People’s Republic of China’s defence expenditure,
1991–2007 42
3.5 World’s top 12 defence spenders, 2006 42
3.6 Nuclear weapons inventories, 2007 45
3.7 Ballistic missile proliferation in Asia 46
6.1 Comparison of equipment and personnel numbers under the 1995 NDPO
and the 2004 NDPG 84
7.1 North Korean GNP, government spending and military expenditure 95
7.2 North Korean arms sales 98
8.1 Tunisian military expenditure 1962–74 108
8.2 Libyan military expenditure 1997–2005 108
8.3 Israeli military expenditure 1974–98 110
8.4 Egyptian military expenditure 1989–2006 111
8.5 Jordanian military expenditure 1980–88 113
8.6 Jordanian military expenditure 1995–2003 113
8.7 Saudi Arabia registered arms trade with industrialized and Third World
countries 115
8.8 Saudi Arabian military expenditure 1973–89 116
8.9 Countries with the highest military expenditure in 2007 117
8.10 Syrian military expenditure 1980–2005 117
8.11 Iran, Kuwait and Bahrain military expenditure 1980–94 119
9.1 Arms transfers to Iran 1986–99 128
9.2 Arms deliveries to Iran, by supplier, 1981–2007 129
10.1 The 10 countries with the highest military expenditure in 2007 136
11.1 Main indicators of the Russian federal budget, 2007–11 153
11.2 Structure of federal expenditure, 2007–11 155
11.3 Expenditure of the Ministry of Defence 157
11.4 Structure of national defence expenditure, 2007–11 159
11.5 Structure of expenditure under national defence item, 2007–11 160