This book analyses the structure and motive forces that shape the global arms transfer and production system.

This book explains how the arms industry makes its money. Keith Hartley offers an authoritative nontechnical introduction to the economics of arms industries an

The explosion of the industrial revolution and the rise of imperialism in the second half of the nineteenth century served to dramatically increase the supply a

The United Nations's groundbreaking Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which went into effect in 2014, sets legally binding standards to regulate global arms exports and

For this study, a group of Russian authors were commissioned to describe and assess the arms trade policies and practices of Russia under new domestic and inter