From defence to development redirecting military resources in South Africa

Remember the global peace dividend - the budget surpluses that were supposed to result from the raising of the Iron Curtain and the end of the arms race? As war-torn societies in the Middle East, Latin America, and parts of Africa found peace and began building democratic societies, governments were...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores Corporativos: International Development Research Centre (Canada) (-), Group for Environmental Monitoring (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Otros Autores: Cock, Jacklyn (-), Mckenzie, Penny
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa, Ont. : International Development Research Centre 1998.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31928791*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Guns or Butter? Growth, Development and Security; 3. The 1996 Defence White Paper: An Agenda for State Demilitarisation?; 4. Reclaiming the Land: A Case Study of Riemvasmaak; 5. Weapons testing: Its impact on people and the Environment; 6. South Africas arms industry: Prospects for Conversion; 7. Light weapons proliferation: The link between security and development; 8. Still killing: Land-mines in Southern Africa; 9. Apartheids nuclear arsenal: Deviation from development.