Arms Races in the Third World: The Case of Argentina and Brazil
Authors
Fredericksen, Peter C.
Looney, Robert E.
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Military expenditures have more than doubled in the past decade
in Latin America, from $9.2 billion in 1973 to nearly $20 billion
in 1983. 1 Concomitant with this large increase, there has been a growing
interest among economists, political scientists, and other scholars
(1) to explain the militarization of the region as a whole, 2 and (2) to
search for variables to explain levels of defense spending within individual
countries. This latter thrust has focused on factors such as economic
conditions, population, size of the country, rivalries, and arms buildup.
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1989
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Winter 1989
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Fredericksen, P.C. and Looney, R.E., "Arms Races in the Third World: The Case of Argentina and Brazil,” Armed Forces and Society, Volume 15, No. 2, Winter 1989.
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