1. The Global Arms Market: A Briefing on the Arms Trade

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. The Global Arms Market: A Briefing on the Arms Trade 1
5. 2. Primal Motives: The Political Economy of Arms Sales 26
6. 3. The Evolution of Doctrine: U.S. Arms Export Policy from Kennedy to Reagan 39
7. 4. The Implementation of Policy: Arms Export Decisionmaking 54
8. 5. The Limits of Policy: U.S. Arms Exports to Latin America 77
9. 6. Arms and the Shah: The Rise and Fall of the "Surrogate Strategy" 108
10. 7. After the Shah: U.S. Arms Sales to the Middle East in the 1980s 127
11. 8. Coproduction and Licensing: The Export of America's Arms- Making Technology 163
12. 9. Arms Sales and Human Rights: The Merchants of Repression 183
13. 10. A Look at the Competition: Soviet and European Arms Sales to the Third World 204
14. 11. Promoting Global Stability: An Alternative Policy Framework 234
15. Appendix 1. U.S. Military Exports by Program, Fiscal 1950-82 252
16. Appendix 2. U.S. Arms Transfers to Third World Police Forces by Country, September 1976-May 1979 260
17. Notes 267
18. Selected Bibliography 297
19. Index 303