Constructing Regional Security

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"In this book William Durch examines conventional weapons proliferation since World War II, the role of arms transfers in fueling regional conflict, and prospects for curbing the global arms trade. Noting that supply-side arms control efforts, which seek to constrain the companies and countries that produce and distribute major conventional weapons, have a poor international track record, Durch argues for a broader approach that tries to get at the demand side of the equation. Addressing the political and regional dynamics that impel arms acquisitions, he looks at how arms control might be combined with confidence and security-building measures to contain demand, and how value-based arms trade control measures like "codes of conduct" could be implemented in stepwise fashion consistent with U.S. national interests in regional stability."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

For nearly a half-century, the Cold War's major contestants and their principal allies poured conventional arms into the developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America in a competition to reinforce friends, outflank enemies, and make a few francs, pounds, rubles, or dollars while doing so.

Excerpt

For nearly a half-century, the Cold War's major contestants and their principal allies poured conventional arms into the developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America in a competition to reinforce friends, outflank enemies, and make a few francs, pounds, rubles, or dollars while doing so.

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