Seeking Security and Development: The Impact of Military Spending and ArmsTransfers

		ISBN: 978-1-55587-416-2 $43.00
	1994/296 pages/LC: 93-41148 A Project of the Center for the Advanced Study of International Development (Michigan State University) and the Midwest Consortium for International Security Studies.

Exploring the causal links between military expenditures and economic development in the Third World, the authors systematically address the concept of security in the Third World context. They trace historical trends in arms transfers and technology diffusion, analyze the relationships between military spending and economic development in several newly industrializing and developing countries, and assess the impact of military regimes in the search for security and development.

• Introduction—N.A. Graham.
• CONCEPTS AND TRENDS.
• Security in the Third World: Searching for the Core Variable—M. Ayoob.
• Unpacking Threat: A Conceptual and Formal Analysis—J.J. Nutter.
• ARMS TRANSFERS AND MILITARY SPENDING.
• Arms Transfers and the Structure of International Power—D.J. Louscher and J. Sperling.
• Building an Arsenal: The Indian Experience—A. Gupta.
• Modeling the Expansion of Military Spending: A Case Study of Taiwan, 1953-1988—J. Hartman and W. Hsiao.
• THE IMPACT OF MILITARY SPENDING AND MILITARY REGIMES ON DEVELOPMENT.
• Military Expenditures, Investment Funds, and Economic Growth-J. Zoninsein.
• The Political Economy of Military Expenditures in Developing Countries: Establishing Some Empirical Norms—L.W. Snider.
• The Military and Development in Thailand and Indonesia: Patrimonialism vs. the Market—D. Crone.
• Military Regimes, Military Spending, and Development: A Comparison of Brazil, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the Republic of Korea—N.A. Graham and P.M. Lewis.
• War, Military Spending, and Food Security in Africa—M. Cheatham.
• CONCLUSION.
• The Quest for Security and Development—N.A. Graham.