that one way things can get messy is via squandering new wealth, based on future resource revenues, on arms imports. In the … five years following a giant oil or gas discovery, arms imports increase by 25 percent. The effect is even larger, at 51 …

Small arms and light weapons (SALWs) imports have been found to be linked to a worsening of human rights conditions in …

units of major conventional weapons, their integration into a transnationalized global arms industry, and the underlying … arms production. The chapter further discusses characteristics of the small arms and light weapons industry. A highly …, especially the product-cycle hypothesis, may explain certain features of the spacial and temporal diffusion of small arms …

The end of the Cold War has increased the relative importance of economic causes and consequences of arms transfers …. Unfortunately, there is surprisingly little theoretical and empirical development of the economics of arms trade, making it a sub … simple international trade models to the arms trade. Fields other than economics have made major contributions to our …