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This book analyses the structure and motive forces that shape theglobal arms transfer and production system. The author distin-guishes three tiers of arms producers, defined by such factors asdefence production base, military research and development capa-bilities and dependence upon arms exports. These factors interactwith underlying political, economic and military motivations to drivestates to produce and export arms, and provide the force whichdirects the international trade in arms. The author discusses theUnited States and the Soviet Union, the European arms suppliersand the emerging arms producers of the developing world. Althoughit concentrates on the contemporary period, the book covers a widehistorical span, from the development of military technologies in thefifteenth and sixteenth centuries to twentieth-century revolutions inweaponry. By focusing on the processes of technological innovationand diffusion, the author shows the evolutionary nature of thespread of military technologies, and situates the current arms trans-fer system in a broad historical context.

CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: 22

Arms and the State: Patterns of MilitaryProduction and Trade

Editorial Board

Steve Smith

(Managing editor)

Ken Booth Christopher Brown Robert CoxAnne Deighton Jean Elshtain Fred HallidayChristopher Hill Andrew Linklater Richard LittleR.

B.

J. Walker

International Political Economy

Roger Tooze Craig

N.

Murphy

Cambridge Studies in International Relations

is a joint initiative of

Cambridge University Press and the British International StudiesAssociation (BISA). The series will include a wide range of material,from undergraduate textbooks and surveys to research-basedmonographs and collaborative volumes. The aim of the series is topublish the best new scholarship in International Studies fromEurope, North America and the rest of the world.