Saudi Arabia, supported by an Arab coalition plus Turkey and the US, launched its second air campaign against Yemeni Houthi rebels in late March 2015 to achieve two big objectives – to restore the ‘legitimate’ government of fugitive President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, and to protect the...

After marked reductions in military spending in the 1990s military budgets around the world are on the increase. In this book, renowned authorities re-examine the economics of military expenditure, arms production and arms trade in developing nations. It includes analysis of military spending in...

This study investigates the causality relationship between defense expenditures and Non Oil economic growth in Saudi Arabia over the period 1970-2012. Using Unit root tests, Johansen’s co-integration test and Granger Causality test. In this paper we found the existence of bi-directional...