The wages of peace : disarmament in a small industrialized economy / Nils Petter Gleditsch, Ådne Cappelen, and Olav Bjerkholt.

Author
Gleditsch, Nils Petter, 1942- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oslo : PRIO ; London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 1994.
Description
viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    With the end of the Cold War, many nations have set about cutting their military spending, and visions of a large 'peace dividend' have emerged. Yet, even today, the arms race remains one of the major projects of humankind, and one of the most unproductive. This book charts a middle course between extravagant claims about the improvements in welfare, development and the environment to be funded by the peace dividend, and the dire assessments of how militarized economies will collapse as a result of disarmament, spiced with warnings that the peace dividend may already have been squandered. Based on a decade of studies, many carried out for the United Nations and its specialized agencies, this book breaks new ground in applying comprehensive models to examine the economic and environmental effects of disarmament at the global, national and local levels, with a primary focus on Norway. The authors also review the international literature on disarmament and conversion. Their findings are cautiously optimistic and of general relevance to all developed countries. The most important dividend of disarmament is peace itself, but some economic gains may also be achieved.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-197) and indexes.
    ISBN
    • 0803977506
    • 9780803977501
    LCCN
    94066826
    OCLC
    31972467
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