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Scuds or Butter? - The Political Economy of Arms Control in the Middle East

English · Paperback / Softback

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In the late 1970s and 1980s, Middle Eastern states spent more than $600 billion expanding their military forces. They acquired thousands of tanks, advanced fighter aircraft, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, and-in some cases-nuclear devices. These potent arsenals make the Middle East the tinderbox of world affairs.
In this book, foreign policy analyst Yahya Sadowski shows that the arms race cannot be sustained in the 1990s. Declining oil prices, overpopulation, economic mismanagement, and foreign policy adventures-such as the 1992 Gulf War, which cost local states another $600 billion-have sapped the economies of the Middle East. Facing dwindling incomes and rising expenses, growing numbers of Middle Easterners now favor diverting funds away from military expenditures and concentrating them on economic development programs.
Sadowski argues that arms control programs for the Middle East should be designed to reinforce and exploit these economic pressures for demilitarization. He examines the strengths and weaknesses of various arms control proposals, such as the U.S. call for a cartel of weapons exporters and a Jordanian plan to liquidate the foreign debt of states that curb military expenditures."

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Yahya M. Sadowski

Product details

Authors Yahya M. Sadowski, Sadowski Yahya M.
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.1993
 
EAN 9780815776635
ISBN 978-0-8157-7663-5
No. of pages 130
Weight 454 g
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, Islamic countries, Arms negotiation & control, Arms negotiation and control

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