Bates Gill, R. Bates Gill

Chinese Arms Transfers

Purposes, Patterns, and Prospects in the New World Order

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first in eight years to address the purposes, patterns, and prospects of Chinese arms transfers, and the only book to address China's recent and provocative rise to prominence as an arms trader since the mid-1980s. Focusing on the 1980s and the prospects for the 1990s, the work analyzes the principal arms trade relationships of the People's Republic of China to provide a greater understanding and more nuanced insight into the arms trade policies and goals of the world's fourth largest arms supplier. This study finds that the economic motive for arms exports--the generating of foreign currency--while important, does not fully or even adequately explain why the Chinese export arms. Rather, Chinese arms exports should be seen in the light of political and strategic motivations, which are often more important. This book should appeal to both scholars and policymakers in the field of international relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780275942793
• ISBN-10: 0275942791
• Artikelnr.: 25569184

Autorenporträt

R Bates Gill

Inhaltsangabe

Developments in Worldwide and PRC Arms Transfers Introduction to Part I: "A
Rogue Elephant" China and the Global Arms Trade PRC Security and Its
Growing Arms Trade, 1949-1979 Contemporary PRC Arms Transfers Introduction
to Part II: Independence and Regional Influence PRC Arms Transfers to the
Middle East: Beyond the Economic Motive PRC Arms Transfers to South Asia:
Seeking Strategic Balance PRC Arms Transfers to Southeast Asia: Asserting
Regional Influence Future Prospects for PRC Arms Transfers Chinese Arms
Transfers in the 1990s: Purposes, Patterns, and Prospects in the New World
Order Appendixes Appendix 1: Exports of Chinese Missiles and Missile
Launchers, 1951-1990 Appendix 2: Exports of Chinese Armor/Artillery,
1951-1990 Appendix 3: Exports of Chinese Military Aircraft, 1951-1990
Appendix 4: Exports of Chinese Naval Craft, 1951-1990 Bibliography Index