Arms imports in sub-Saharan Africa: Predicting conflict involvement

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-49

  Craft, Cassady ^a   Smaldone, Joseph P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Armed conflict; Arms trade; Civil war; Interstate war; Political violence; Weapons trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037301428     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690302933     Document Type: Article

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