Arms Sales
Subtitle: U.S. national debate topic 2019-2020
Series: The reference shelf ; v. 91, no. 3
Publisher: Grey House Publishing
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Amenia, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781642652208
Copyright date: 2019
Notes: "Exploring contemporary issues with selected primary & secondary sources" - cover.
Table of contents: title: 1. History.; title: Risk and reward: the history of arms trading in the United States; title: A world of weapons: historians shape scholarship on arms trading / Kritika Agarwal; title: Where did Iran get its military arms over the last 70 years? / Kuang Keng Kuek Ser; title: "Merchants of death": the international traffic in arms / Jonathan Grant; title: Let's talk about George H.W. Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal / Aran Gupta; title: How British businesses helped the confederacy fight the American Civil War / Joe Kelly; title: As the US entered World War I, American soldiers depended on foreign weapons technology / David Longenbach; title: Losing by "winning": America's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria / Anthony H. Cordesman; title: 2. Economics of the arms trade.; title: Checks and balances: the economy of warfare; title: How the arms trade is used to secure access to oil / Vincenzo Bove; title: The global arms trade is booming: buyers are spoiled for choice; title: Defense firms say Trump's Saudi arms deal will create 500 American jobs, while Trump claimed as many as 500,000 / Mike Stone; title: Trump to unleash more global arms sales / Bryan Bender and Tara Palmeri; title: Arming the world: inside Trump's "buy American" drive to expand weapons exports / Matt Spetalnick and Mike Stone; title: Why Congress supports Saudi arms sales / Oleg Svet; title: 3. Arms and foreign policy.; title: Guns and diplomats: the arms trade and foreign policy; title: The Trump administration has a plan to compete with Russia and China over weapon sales / Dave Majumdar; title: After Khashoggi, US arms sales to the Saudis are essential leverage / Bruce Riedel; title: US remains top arms exporter, but Russia is nipping at its heels / Terrence Guay; title: U.S. approves new military sale to Taiwan, drawing China's ire; title: U.S. policy in the Arabian peninsula: an evaluation / Michael Singh; title: Why military assistance programs disappoint: minor tools can't solve major problems / Mara Karlin; title: America needs to sell more weapons / Alexander Benard; title: Japan wants cruise missiles ( and that should terrify China or North Korea) / Kyle Mizokami; title: The new Iron Curtain: Russian missile defense challenges U.S. air power / Thomas Grove; title: The uneasy co-existence of arms exports and feminist foreign policy / Srdjan Vucetic; title: 4. The wrong hands: arms deals, war, and terror.; title: Sale of U.S. arms fuels the wars of Arab states / Mark Mazzetti and Helene Cooper; title: Time to rethink America's vast arms deals / Daniel R. DePetris; title: Fired up over firearms: how do export controls relate to 3-D printing of guns? / Andrew Philip Hunter and Samantha Cohen; title: Pentagon loses track of $500 million in weapons, equipment given to Yemen / Craig Whitlock; title: Can selling weapons to oppressive and violent states ever be justified? / James Christensen; title: American weapons in the wrong hands / Jodi Vittori; title: 5. The human cost.; title: The human dimension: arms trades and human rights; title: How U.S. guns sold to Mexico end up with security forces accused of crime and human rights abuses / John Lindsay-Poland; title: Ukraine: U.S. arms sales making big business money while ordinary people pay the price / Liana Semchuk; title: U.S. points finger, and arms exports, at human rights abusers / Zach Toombs and Jeffrey Smith; title: Want to punish Saudi Arabia? Cut off its weapons supply / Jonathan D. Caverley; title: Trump will fuel war across world by increasing U.S global arms sales / John Haltiwanger; title: Arms sales to Saudi "illicit" due to civilian deaths in Yemen: campaigners / Stephanie Nebehay; title: Trump's arms exports rules will undermine US security and risk human rights abuses / William D. Hartung.