Introduction / Dania Thafer and David B. Des Roches 1. - Security Puzzle in the Gulf: New Sectors and New Challenges / Cihat Battaloglu 8. - GCC Arms Imports: Strategie Assessment and Economic Benefits to the United States / John Duke Anthony 23. - The Istanbul Cooperation Initiative as an...

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...

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