ABSTRACT
This book, first published in 1980, presents a comprehensive and detailed look at the problem of international militarisation. It examines the key issues, the meaning of the problem, the international context and the spread of militarism to the Third World, its fast growth and dangerous implications – including to the development of often poorer countries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|6 pages
Introduction
part II|62 pages
The Global Dimension
part III|118 pages
Meaning of Militarism
chapter 4|29 pages
Militarism, Its Dimensions and Corollaries
An Attempt at Conceptual Clarification
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part IV|104 pages
The Military in the Third World
chapter 16|11 pages
The Military Expenditures of Less Developed Nations as a Proportion of Their State Budgets *
A Research Note
part V|74 pages
Legal, Social and Cultural Spheres
chapter 17|24 pages
Militarisation With a Global Reach
A Challenge to Sovereignty, Security and the International Legal Order
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