ABSTRACT
The beneficent triangle of Arab petrofunds, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development technology, and African-Arab development, confronts a contradictory triangle of Arab petrofunds, North Atlantic Treaty Organization arms supplies, and African and Arab conflict. The major determinants of both military spending and nonmilitary accumulation in most developing countries are external. This chapter analyses military expenditures are to a large extent influenced by the recycling of international earnings and of international power relations in the ways. The European countries as well as the United States have reacted to the crisis of hegemony by supplying more weapons, although the figures suggest significant differences. The crisis in Western hegemony has produced two seemingly opposed trends: first, a revival of direct military intervention by the major powers in the affairs of the two regions, and second, a number of major Western initiatives to encourage negotiated settlement of conflicts.
