The Small Arms Trade A Beginner's Guide

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-12-30
Publisher(s): Oneworld Publications
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Summary

This enlightening guide reveals the disturbing reality within the murky underworld of international arms trading.

Author Biography

Rachel Stohl is Senior Analyst at the Center for Defense Information at the World Security Institute in Washington, DC Matt Schroeder is the Manager of the Arms Sales Monitoring Project at the Federation of American Scientists Colonel Dan Smith is the Senior Fellow on Military Affairs at the Friends Committee on National Legislation

Table of Contents

Introductionp. vi
Prologuep. xiv
Symbol of violence, war and culturep. 1
Spreading weapons of individual destructionp. 11
Costs and consequencesp. 22
Stemming the flow of small armsp. 38
Man-portable air defense systems - the terrorists' delightp. 59
Bleeding the sovietsp. 68
The proliferation and control of MANPADS in the 1990sp. 86
The post-mombasa scramblep. 110
Epilogue: Future challenges of proliferationp. 129
Glossaryp. 141
Websitesp. 145
Notesp. 148
Indexp. 171
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