The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Feinstein Klappentext Andrew Feinstein is the author of After the Party: A Personal and Political Journey Inside the ANC , a best-selling memoir of his time as an African National Congress Member of Parliament in South Africa. His journalism has been featured in the Guardian , the Daily Telegraph , Prospect , the New York Times , Der Spiegel , the New Statesman and Africa Report . In 2011 he authored the lead article in the authoritative Sipri Yearbook. He appears regularly on the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera. He has recently been an Open Society Institute International Fellow and is the founding co-director of Corruption Watch, an anti-corruption NGO, and chairperson of the Aids charity FoTAC. Zusammenfassung Reveals the corruption behind BAE's controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe and the relationships that characterise the US Congressional-Military-Industrial Complex. This title exposes both the formal government-backed trade in arms as well as the illicit deals and lays bare the shocking links between the two.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Feinstein, Feinstein Andrew
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.10.2012
• EAN: 9780141040059
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104005-9
• No. of pages: 696
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 42 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Military / Weapons, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, Political corruption, Corruption in politics, government and society