Arms Transfers and the Logic of Political Efficacy.

Abstract

Arms transfers are deemed to be mechanisms of control; those who import weapons are, by reason of those imports, supposed to have forfeited a measure of autonomy. It is this proposition, constant amid the changing currents of transfer policy over the last quarter century, that bears close examination. This paper attempts to do just that. The inquiry proceeds by: (1) providing an overview of extant arguments about arms transfers; (2) constructing a model of political efficacy; (3) deriving theoretically based measures of the various concepts involved; and (4) testing the model empirically and estimating the efficacy of arms transfers as determinants of politically desirable outcomes. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 10, 1978
Accession Number
ADA062509

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  • David J. Sylvan

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Cold War
  • Department Of State
  • Economic Policy
  • Foreign Aid
  • Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • Law
  • Military Personnel
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Sociopolitics
  • Students
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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