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Arms production in the third tier: An analysis of opportunity and willingness

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Major determinants of third world military industrialization operate at the domestic, regional, and global levels. I summarize these and then examine their relative importance by analyzing time‐series cross‐section data for twelve arms producers from 1968 to 1990. Overall, there is considerable support for the various factors identified in the literature. However, my findings do highlight the importance of opportunity, perhaps more than willingness, as an explanation for changing levels of third tier arms production. Resolution of the tensions that drive regional militarization and the eruption of military conflict should have some positive effects ‐on restraining the expansion of arms production capacity. But there also seems to be a certain inevitability to the process, a process that is limited primarily by states' resources, industrial capacities, and access to weapons‐production technologies.

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  • David Kinsella, 1999. "Arms production in the third tier: An analysis of opportunity and willingness," International Interactions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(3), pages 253-286, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ginixx:v:26:y:1999:i:3:p:253-286
    DOI: 10.1080/03050620008434968
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