The Global Politics of Arms Sales

by Andrew J. Pierre

Marshaling a great deal of new information in a highly readable manner, the author explains the reasons for the dramatic expansion of arms sales during the past decade and clearly traces such trends as the rise in sophistication of weapons being sold so as to include the most advanced technologies, and the shift in sales to unstable parts of the Third World.



Originally published in 1982.

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356 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1981

Reviews

[Spencer Willardson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book that I have read "about" for more than a decade. It is one that I have had on lists of books to read for my research on arms transfers. I can see now that it was a serious oversight that I didn't have this book before. It was hard to find, but now it is print on demand from Princeton and I am able to have my own copy.

I won't write a lot about the book here, except to say that this is an excellent book to understand arms sales even now, 40 years after its initial publication.