The global arms trade : a handbook / edited by Andrew T.H. Tan.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-368) and index.

1. Global Arms Trade / Andrew Tan -- 2. Defence Spending and Procurement Trends in Southeast Asia / Andrew Tan -- 3. Arms Modernization in Asia / Desmond Ball -- 4. Friends in Need or Comrades in Arms: Sino-Russian weapons business / You Ji -- 5. India{u2019}s Arms Build-up / Harsh V Pant -- 6. Japan{u2019}s Arms Procurement after the Cold War/ Brad Williams 7. Arming North Korea / Yong-Sup Han -- 8. Arms Modernization in the Middle East / Riad Attar-- 9. Iran{u2019}s Defence Spending and Arms Procurement / Efraim Kam -- 10. Post Cold War Defence Procurement in Europe / Andrew James -- 11. Defence Spending and Procurement in Post-Communist Russia / Alexander Pikayev -- 12. Arms Modernization in Latin America / Mark Bromley and Inigo Guevara -- 13. Global Arms Trade: Challenge for Africa / Martin R. Rupiya -- 14. The Global Arms Trade after the Cold War / Siemon T. Wezeman -- 15. Globalization Revisited / Richard Bitzinger -- 16. Defence Restructuring and Consolidation in Europe / Michael Brzoska -- 17. The US Defence Industry After the Cold War / Elisabeth Skons -- 18. The United Kingdom Arms Industry in Globalized World / Samuel Perlo-Freeman 19. Defence Industries in Israel / Yaacov Lifschitz -- 20. The Military Industrial Complex / J. Paul Dunne -- 21. Defence Spending and Development / J. Paul Dunne and Mehmet Uye -- 22. Post-Cold War Control of Conventional Arms / Sibylle Bauer -- 23. Insurgencies and their Impact on Arms Procurement / Isaiah Wilson -- 24. Private Military and Security Companies and the International Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons / Malcolm Hugh Patterson -- 25. Future War: The Shape of Arms to Come / Malcolm Davis.