American Arms Supermarket

American Arms Supermarket

Author: Michael T. Klare

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0292768958

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U.S. arms sales to Third World countries rapidly escalated from $250 million per year in the 1950s and 1960s to $10 billion and above in the 1970s and 1980s. But were these military sales, so critical in their impact on Third World nations and on America’s perception of its global role, achieving the ends and benefits attributed to them by U.S. policymakers? In American Arms Supermarket, Michael T. Klare responds to this troubling, still-timely question with a resounding no, showing how a steady growth in arms sales places global security and stability in jeopardy. Tracing U.S. policies, practices, and experiences in military sales to the Third World from the 1950s to the 1980s, Klare explains how the formation of U.S. foreign policy did not keep pace with its escalating arms sales—how, instead, U.S. arms exports proved to be an unreliable instrument of policy, often producing results that diminished rather than enhanced fundamental American interests. Klare carefully considers the whole spectrum of contemporary American arms policy, focusing on the political economy of military sales, the evolution of U.S. arms export policy from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan, and the institutional framework for arms export decision making. Actual case studies of U.S. arms sales to Latin America, Iran, and the Middle East provide useful data in assessing the effectiveness of arms transfer programs in meeting U.S. foreign policy objectives. The author also rigorously examines trouble spots in arms policy: the transfer of arms-making technology to Third World arms producers, the relationship between arms transfers and human rights, and the enforcement of arms embargoes on South Africa, Chile, and other “pariah” regimes. Klare also compares the U.S. record on arms transfers to the experiences of other major arms suppliers: the Soviet Union and the “big four” European nations—France, Britain, the former West Germany, and Italy. Concluding with a reasoned, carefully drawn proposal for an alternative arms export policy, Klare vividly demonstrates the need for cautious, restrained, and sensitive policy.


American Arms Supermarket

American Arms Supermarket

Author: Michael T. Klare

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0292703708

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Describes the evolution of United States arms export policies, argues that United States arms sales contribute to the world's political instability, and suggests an alternative policy


The End of the Concessionary Regime

The End of the Concessionary Regime

Author: Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt

Publisher: Stanford University

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13:

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This dissertation analyzes the historical process that culminated in the 1972 nationalization of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) -- a consortium that included four of the world's largest and most powerful corporations. I draw on IPC archives, recently declassified U.S. Government documents, and the Arab press to trace the impact of Iraq's 1958 "Free Officers' Revolution" on IPC interests in Iraq. I show that the Revolution set in motion a process of institutional development that resulted in the complete nationalization of the Iraqi oil industry at a relatively early date, and I emphasize the agency of a particular group of Western-trained Iraqi technical experts in producing this outcome. Moreover, I examine U.S and IPC efforts to counter Iraq's radical movements and offer an original interpretation of the relationship between the American government and the international oil industry. I show that the Iraqi challenge to the IPC undermined the stability of an implicit "corporatist bargain" between the U.S. State Department and the major American oil companies, and that the breakdown of this relationship was part of a larger crisis of American hegemony in the early 1970s. In so doing, I reveal powerful underlying factors that continue to drive the historical encounter between the U.S. and the Middle East.


Universities in the Business of Repression

Universities in the Business of Repression

Author: Jonathan Feldman

Publisher: South End Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780896083547

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An essential guide for students and academics seeking to expose university complicity with militarism and repression in the Third World.


The Democratic Socialist Vision

The Democratic Socialist Vision

Author: Gary J. Dorrien

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780847675074

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To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.


Democracy Prevention

Democracy Prevention

Author: Jason Brownlee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-06

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1107025710

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Democracy Prevention explains how America's alliance with Egypt has impeded democratic change and reinforced authoritarianism over time.


Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II

Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II

Author: James Ciment

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-27

Total Pages: 1334

ISBN-13: 1317471865

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Thoroughly revised to include 25 conflicts not covered in the previous edition, as well as expanded and updated information on previous coverage, this illustrated reference presents descriptions and analyses of more than 170 significant post-World War II conflicts around the globe. Organized by region for ease of access, "Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II, Second Edition" provides clear, in-depth explanations of events not covered in such detail in any other reference source. Including more than 180 detailed maps and 150 photos, the set highlights the conflicts that dominate today's headlines and the events that changed the course of late twentieth-century history.


A Superpower Transformed

A Superpower Transformed

Author: Daniel J. Sargent

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 0195395476

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Geopolitics and globalization collided in the 1970s, and their collision produced difficult challenges for the makers of American foreign policy. A Superpower Transformed explains how policymakers across three administrations worked to manage complex international changes in a tumultuous era, and it explores the legacies of their efforts to accommodate American power to new forces stirring in world affairs.