Cascade of Arms: Managing Conventional Weapons Proliferation

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This work looks at the impct of weapons purchases on the principal recipient regions and the possibilities for regional arms control and dissects the economics of arms export for the producer nations in both the developing and industrialized worlds. The book thoroughly discusses the opportunities for, and obstacles to, achieving multilateral arms restraint in the 1990s.

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Andrew J. Pierre, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is coauthor of The Algerian Crisis: Policy Options for the West (Carnegie, 1996) and author of The Global Politics of Arms Sales (Princeton, 1982), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.