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1 online resource (231 pages)
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9780773583092
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Government agencies are increasingly apprehensive about the scale of military spending in Africa and the Middle East - particularly incountries where they are providing development assistance. This study argues that certain countries overspend on their military forces to the detriment of more productive social or economic programs.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- 1 The Conceptual Model: The Purpose of Military Forces -- 2 Modelling Issues -- 3 Northwest Africa -- Case Study 1: Morocco -- 4 West Africa -- Case Study 2: Burkina Faso -- Case Study 3: Mali -- 5 Central Africa -- Case Study 4: Cameroon -- 6 Southern Africa -- Case Study 5: Zambia -- Case Study 6: Zimbabwe -- 7 Eastern Africa -- Case Study 7: Tanzania -- Case Study 8: Kenya -- 8 The Middle East -- Case Study 9: Jordan -- Case Study 10: Egypt -- 9 Determining the Extent of Military Overspending -- Appendix 1 - National Development Tasks: Canadian Defence Structure Review of 1975 -- Appendix 2 - United Nations Centre for Disarmament: Defence Expenditures Disaggregation Model -- Appendix 3 - African Debtors to the Former Soviet Union -- Appendix 4 - NATO Distribution of Defence Expenditures by Category: Average 1985-89 -- Appendix 5 - Distribution of Canadian Military Personnel by Military Occupation Codes (MOCs) 1994 -- Appendix 6 - Partial Correlation Analysis: Military Imports/Military Expenditures -- Appendix 7 - Social and Socioeconomic Militarization: Praetorian and Spartan Indices (1990-94 Means) -- Appendix 8 - Financial Militarization ME/GNP and ME/CGE -- Appendix 9 - Military Capabilities (1996-97) -- Sources.
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ISBN 9780886293147
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780886293147
Sprache:
Englisch
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