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 …

Through a systematic literature review of 42 recent peer‐reviewed empirical studies of
international arms markets, this paper examines the determinants of supply and demand for …

Since the height of the Cold War, major democratic arms suppliers have claimed that they
take into consideration the human rights records of existing and potential purchasing states …

Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that
the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and …

This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the European Defence Agency
(EDA), the leading EU armaments policy institution. Despite its critical role in European …

The political environment of security and defence has changed radically in the Western
industrialised world since the Cold War. As a response to these changes, since the …

International government procurement is rife with deviations from the perfectly competitive
market model and arm's-length exchange. In the defense, aerospace, capital equipment …

This paper evaluates offsets in government procurement. The analysis addresses Udis and
Maskus'(1991, p. 163) call for “a serious effort to develop criteria to distinguish between …

This article explores whether it makes sense for national governments to employ defence
industrial policies–such as offsets and discriminatory procurement practices–to support their …

Arms transfers provide exporters an avenue to provide security to other states while gaining
economic benefits. Arms transfers provide importers an avenue to gain security without …