Arms for export? A reappraisal of the Brazilian arms industry

The Small Arms Industry

Concentration in the International Arms Industry ∗

The end of the Cold War led to a large drop in world military expenditure, rising fixed costs of developing weapons because of technological changes and a reduction of national preference for domestic weapons. Alongside these developments has been an increase in concentration in the world arms industry, which at the end of the Cold War had been very unconcentrated with concentration ratios clos...

New Challenges to Arms Export Control : Whither Wassenaar ?

Ron Smith is Professor of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London. He has been Visiting Professor at the London Business School and the University of Colorado and has published seven books and over a hundred papers in the areas of applied econometrics and defense economics. Bernard Udis is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. During 1997, he was ...

A Farewell to Arms

At a certain moment in life everyone has to make important decisions with direct implications for their future. This time has now arrived and I would like to announce that, as of 1 January 2017, I will be stepping down as Editorin-Chief of the Netherlands Heart Journal (NHJ). Formally, the appointment of an Editor-in-Chief is a matter for both the Publisher and the Netherlands Society of Cardio...

A call to arms.

The Netherlands and other northern European countries have been enduring leaders in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) control across hospital and community environments. When I spoke to a Dutch colleague about their secret, I heard that some twenty-five years ago, when MRSA was starting to be seen in Europe, the microbiologists from across the country got together and in a reso...