Product Description: Infinite Bowman tracks the story of a lost astronaut wandering through the wastedlands, making his way through the infinite city, battling demons, and calling his buddies jerks. Pat Aulisio’s manic spattery squiggly style pairs magnificently with his unique breed of inter-galactic toilet humor...read more

Product Description: Countries that spend scarce resources to import arms from abroad often require arms sellers to 'reinvest' part or all of the proceeds back into the arms-importing country. These so-called 'arms trade offsets' are therefore thought to enhance domestic economic development...read more

Product Description: Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind a range of weapons deals, from the largest in history—between the British and Saudi governments—to the guns-for-diamonds deals in Africa and the imminent $60 billion U...read more

Product Description: Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind a range of weapons deals, from the largest in history—between the British and Saudi governments—to the guns-for-diamonds deals in Africa and the imminent $60 billion U...read more

Product Description: Examines the arms trade, discusses the legality of it, and questions whether it is sufficiently controlled.

Product Description: Book by Merino, Noël

Mark Thomas is one of the UK's most effective and best-known political activists. His show, 'The Mark Thomas Product', ran for six highly acclaimed series on Channel Four. This title presents an account of Mark's rampage through the arms trade, and also looks at the truth of an industry fraught with loopholes, complacency and greed.

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Product Description: In the News focuses on some of the most controversial issues facing the world today. From the arms trade to contemporary drug culture, the issues in each title are clearly defined and considered from every viewpoint. Each book includes thought-provoking sidebars to encourage further discussion...read more

Summarizes the arguments in the debate over the selling of arms, from small pistols to military computers, provides facts and figures, and suggests solutions to the problems associated with this industry.

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Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With the post-cold war emphasis on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the neglected dimension has been the spread of advanced conventional arms. Yet these are the arms most likely to be used in conflict. They present the greatest diversion from economic and social development, and are the centerpiece of regional security balances...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This work examines the dilemmas that states face in attempting to restrict the proliferation of deadly weapons whose production is, more and more, diffused across international borders. Experts from East and West outline steps to manage deteriorating relations with Russia.

Today, despite the end of the cold war, more countries have more sophisticated weapons from more numerous suppliers than ever before. This is partly a product of continuing and growing conflicts—especially regional and interethnic ones—but it also reflects the political and economic difficulties of weaning public and private enterprise away from powerful and highly lucrative defense manufacturing and sales.In this compact yet comprehensive volume, Frederic Pearson surveys the broad terrain covered by the concept of “the security dilemma” and points out landmarks along the route proceeding from proliferation to economic interests, to potential “conversion,” to the future of defense production and marketing. Along the way we experience the lure of arms sales expositions and fairs and the quandary of deciding whether to arm victims of aggression. The author meticulously describes and documents the twin motives of “welfare and security” in the arms market: who buys weapons, who sells them, where they are produced, and how they are—and are not—used. Through a combination of data, anecdotes, illustrations, and narration accompanied by special feature boxes, we see how arms races have mounted historically and how they might be defused in this, the gathering post–Cold War order.From spears and axes to the radar-eluding stealth aircraft, The Global Spread of Arms charts the history of the arms dilemma and brings us up-to-date on myths and recent trends in weapons development internationally. Touching on issues ranging from multinational arms manufacturers to black and gray market consumers, from arms verification to arms autonomy, and from peace dividends to “peace through strength,” Pearson presents a balanced view of the policy debate about defense economies, collective security, and how to manage them.Governments of developed and developing countries alike talk about arms control but often fail to act in curtailing arms trade and transfers. Nowhere is the paradox of the “sovereign right to arm” more apparent than in current hot spots detailed by Pearson, including the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, Iraq, North Korea, and South Asia. We see an array of arms trends played out to devastating effect: sanctions, embargoes, multilateral trade and negotiations, smuggling, “arms balancing,” and, ultimately, proliferation and escalation cycles. Potential escape routes from weapons dilemmas also are offered in a full review of arms transfer controls.Students of international relations and international political economy, from peace studies to security studies, will join industry and government professionals as well as general readers in finding this primer indispensable to understanding the past and future global arsenal.