The structure of arms imports financing has changed considerably in the past. While in the fifties and sixties grants prevailed, in the seventies credits and cash-payments became most important. It is not possible to indicate how much of arms credits were included in available debt statistics....

Strong assumptions about the military sector are often made from weak data. This is as true for military expenditure data as for other data series. This judgement holds true despite the number of well known and highly reputed institutions putting out military expenditure data. These institutions...

It is often stated in academic analysis as well as in public discussions that there is a nuclear proliferation regime. The rather limited proliferation of nuclear weapons since the 1960s is then said to be the result of the erection and fairly successful working of this international regime....

The left-to-center government coming to power in the FRG in 1969 adopted a comparatively restrictive arms export policy. In the 1970s, restrictions were lifted step-by-step. The analysis of this process focuses on polity and politics of arms transfer policy. Arms transfer policy became split....