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Non-provocative defence as a principle of arms reduction and its implications for assessing defence technologies
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ISBN: 906256755X Year: 1989 Publisher: Amsterdam Free university Amsterdam


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Graven in Rwanda: de senaatscommissie en persoonlijke getuigenissen
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ISBN: 9002206798 9789002206795 Year: 1998 Publisher: Antwerpen Icarus

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Trafics d'armes vers l'Afrique : pleins feux sur les réseaux français et le "savoir-faire" belge
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ISBN: 2870279302 9782870279304 Year: 2002 Volume: 261-262 Publisher: Bruxelles Complexe GRIP

The European Security Strategy : a global agenda for positive power
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ISBN: 0754644693 9780754644699 Year: 2005 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

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In December 2003 the EU adopted the European Security Strategy, the first ever common strategic vision of the Member States. This volume examines how the Strategy can form the basis of a comprehensive approach that integrates all dimensions of EU external Covering both the concepts underlying the European Security Strategy (ESS) and its implementation, this text offers a comprehensive, long-term vision of how the EU can achieve the ambitious objectives expressed in the ESS.

Corporate Warriors : The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, Updated Edition
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ISBN: 0801489156 0801441145 9780801441141 9780801489150 0801459893 Year: 2007 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals. This new "Privatized Military Industry" encompasses hundreds of companies, thousands of employees, and billions of dollars in revenue. Whether as proxies or suppliers, such firms have participated in wars in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, and Latin America. More recently, they have become a key element in U.S. military operations. Private corporations working for profit now sway the course of national and international conflict, but the consequences have been little explored.In Corporate Warriors, Singer provides the first account of the military services industry and its broader implications. Corporate Warriors includes a description of how the business works, as well as portraits of each of the basic types of companies: military providers that offer troops for tactical operations; military consultants that supply expert advice and training; and military support companies that sell logistics, intelligence, and engineering.This updated edition of Singer's already classic account of the military services industry and its broader implications describes the continuing importance of that industry in the Iraq War. This conflict has amply borne out Singer's argument that the privatization of warfare allows startling new capabilities and efficiencies in the ways that war is carried out. At the same time, however, Singer finds that the introduction of the profit motive onto the battlefield raises troubling questions-for democracy, for ethics, for management, for human rights, and for national security.

Arms and the state : patterns of military production and trade
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ISBN: 0521394465 0521558662 9780521394468 9780521558662 9780511521744 051152174X Year: 1992 Volume: 22 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book analyses the structure and motive forces that shape the global arms transfer and production system. The author distinguishes three tiers of arms producers, defined by such factors as defence production base, military research and development capabilities, and dependence upon arms exports. These factors interact with underlying political, economic, and military motivations to drive states to produce and export arms, and provide the force which directs the international trade in arms. The author discusses the United States and the Soviet Union, the European arms suppliers, and the emerging arms producers of the developing world. Although it concentrates on the contemporary period, the book covers a wide historical span, from the development of military technologies in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to twentieth-century revolutions in weaponry. By focusing on the processes of technological innovation and diffusion, the author shows the evolutionary nature of the spread of military technologies, and situates the current arms transfer system in a broad historical context.


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De structuur van de waanzin : conflicten in de periferie
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ISBN: 9038202636 Year: 2001 Publisher: Gent Academia Press

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