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Abstract

rather than in the military or economic considerations that sometimes motivate or justify arms sales. Accordingly, he gives detailed attention to the principal nations selling and buying arms and discusses the issue from a wide variety of individual national perspectives. What emerges from this presentation is a potentially very confusing story in which conventional arms transfers are related to East-West competition, to regional security concerns, to nonproliferation objectives, and to the demands of emerging nations for local and international prestige. Pierre puts all of these specific national policy considerations into a global perspective by beginning with a description of the dilemmas faced by all policymakers in any decision to buy or sell arms, and by concluding with a number of