Myth 2: Military spending is driven by security concerns
The decisions to build, sell or buy weapons systems often have little to do with defending the nation. Other factors
Read moreThe decisions to build, sell or buy weapons systems often have little to do with defending the nation. Other factors
Read moreThe world spends a lot on preparing for war, $1686 billion at the last estimate by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Read moreAuthors Xiaodon Liang and Sam Perlo-Freeman examine the problem of corruption in the military sector in Indonesia in the post-Suharto era, in particular in relation to arms procurement, and discuss the significance of recent tentative signs of greater efforts by the Indonesian civil and military authorities to address the problem. It illustrates crucial points about democratization and corruption in the arms trade.
Read moreA new Occasional Paper by Sam Perlo-Freeman, attempts to produce a global estimate, or rather a range of estimates of the financial size of the international arms trade. The paper also explains problems with the data, including for some of the largest western arms exporters, from whom one might expect a greater level of transparency: most notably, the USA.
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Read moreThe global arms trade is suffused with corruption, imperils the vulnerable and makes us all less safe. Yet arms merchants
Read moreThe global arms business is a priority for WPF because of the way the industry fuels violent conflict, not only
Read moreThe Compendium of Arms Trade Corruption: Also known as the “dossier of dodgy defense deals”, the Compendium of Arms Trade Corruption
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