Using global data for the period 1960-99, Collier and Hoeffler estimate neighborhood arms races. They find that the level of military expenditure is strongly influenced by the expenditure of neighbors. The authors estimate an quot;arms race multiplier,quot; finding that an initial exogenous...

The provision of arms for the commission of crimes is one of the typical forms of aiding and abetting. This article discusses arms trafficking as a form of aiding and abetting the commission of core crimes. It opens with a discussion of aiding and abetting as a form of complicity in the Rome...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of military aid and arms transfers on Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID). The “democratic peace� literature has found empirical evidence for the claim that democracies rarely, if ever, engage each other in militarized disputes....