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Arms Procurement Decision Making Volume II: Chile, Greece, Malaysia, Poland, South Africa and Taiwan

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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN 0-19-829580-4
298 pp.
2000

Why and how do countries buy the armaments and defence equipment they do buy? The first volume of this study, published in 1998, examined in detail the processes that lie behind arms procurement decisions in six arms-recipient countries: China, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. This second volume contains similar case studies based on extensive original research by experts from the national academic and defence communities in six more countries. It considers in particular whether arms procurement can become more responsive to the broader objectives of security and public accountability.

Contents

1. Introduction
Ravinder Pal Singh

2. Chile
Francisco Rojas Aravena

3. Greece
Stelios Alifantis and Christos Kollias

4. Malaysia
Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam

Appendix 4A. Offset arrangements between Malaysia and the 104 German Naval Group

5. Poland
Pawel Wieczorek and Katarzyna Zukrowska

6. South Africa
Gavin Cawthra

7. Taiwan
Chih-cheng Lo

8. Comparative analysis
Ravinder Pal Singh

 

Annexe A. Research questions

Annexe B. Abstracts of the working papers

Annexe C. About the contributors

Index