<Para ID="Par1">A recent Climatic Change review article reports a remarkable convergence of scientific evidence for a link between climatic events and violent intergroup conflict, thus departing markedly from other contemporary assessments of the empirical literature. This commentary revisits the review in...</para>

The value of major conventional weapons imported by Third World countries between 1971 and 1985 was quadruple that for the previous two decades. This spectacular increase reflects changes in the economic and technological relations between industrialized nations and the Third World, as well as...

The production of weapons in less industrialized countries (LIC) grew rapidly from the 1960s to the mid-1980s when it began to stagnate. The trend is not universal, however, with drastic declines in countries in Africa and Latin America and stagnation or even growth in countries in Asia....