Below is one of the lists from the Peace section of the Booklists page of the Housmans website. It's the ARMS TRADE list. You can go right back to the website's main Booklists page (which links directly to and from all the other main pages) here. You can go back up to the start of the Peace section here. And you can jump directly between the Peace lists, without going back up to the head of the Peace section, using the links which follow... Key/recommended texts New and recent publications Topic 1: Pacifism and nonviolence Topic 2: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, etc Topic 3: Peace education Topic 4: Peace research Topic 5: Women and peace Topic 6: Lifestyles and religious Topic 7: Disarmament, arms race Topic 8: Nuclear and other WMDs Topic 9: Arms trade Topic 10: Specific wars Topic 11: "Terrorism" [Classification not yet available] Topic 12: Peace movement history Topic 13: Miscellaneous topics Topic 14: General peace issues Topic 15: Relevant fiction and poetry Topic 16: Journals [Classification not yet available] Topic 17: Reference [Classification not yet available] Topic 9: ARMS TRADE These items deal with the arms trade; military industry and conversion; the economics of militarism and the military; and the military-industrial complex. Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand - see the Peace Booklists introductory page. The Naval Arms Trade, Ian Anthony (SIPRI/OUP, 1990), hbk £12.50 An overview of the naval arms market. Arms Export Regulations, (Ed) Ian Anthony (SIPRI/OUP, 1991), hbk £20.00 Detailed coverage of national and multilateral arms transfer controls, covering 24 of the major arms exporting countries of the decade to 1990. Whose Priorities? - A guide for campaigners on military and social spending, Colin Archer (International Peace Bureau, Geneva, 2007), pbk £7.50 An excellent manual covering both the arguments and how to campaign about them, with plenty of examples from campaigns in different countries. Restructuring of Arms Production in Western Europe, (Eds) Michael Brzoska and Peter Lock (SIPRI / Oxford University Press, 1992), £16.50 The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, Gideon Burrows (New Internationalist / Verso, 2002), £7.00 The Price of War, Alec Cairncross (Basil Blackwell, 1986), £7.50 The Cost of Britain's Defence, Malcolm Chalmers (Bradford University School of Peace Studies / Housmans, 1983), pmphlt £3.00 No 10 in the Peace Studies Papers series. Bombs for Breakfast: How the arms trade causes a vicious cycle of impoverishment, repression, and militarisation in the Third World (Committee on Poverty and the Arms Trade, London, 1978), pmphlt £4.00 The gist of this classic pamphlet is still all too relevant. Controlling the Arms Trade - The West versus the Rest, Paul Cornish (Bowerdean, 1996), pbk £9.99 Questioning Globalized Militarism: Nuclear and Military Production and Critical Economic Theory, Peter Custers (Merlin Press, Monmouth, 2007) pbk £25.00 This study highlights the importance of the production and consumption of arms as a form of social waste within the capitalist world order. International Restructuring and Conversion of the Arms Industries and the Military Sector, (Ed) Wolfram Elsner (LIT, Munster, Germany, 2001), hbk £15.00 Proceedings of the International Conversion Conference held in Bremen, Germany, in April 2001. Fiscal Planning for Total War, WL Crum, JF Fennelly and LH Seltzer (National Bureau of Economic Research, New York, 1942), hbk £5.00 Economics of Peace and War, John Eaton (Lawrence & Wishart, 1952), pbk £4.00 The Economic Effects of Disarmament (The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by the United World Trust, 1963), pbk £7.50 A definitive look at the question "What will happen if Britain disarms?"; the figures might be out of date, but much of the logic and analysis could be a model for answering the same question today. £60 a Second on Defence, Raymond Fletcher (McGibbon & Kee, 1963), £3.00 The Arms Scandal to End it All: The K/V Papers, Barbara Goodwin (Pluto Press, 1983), £3.50 In the Public Interest: An Account of the Arms-to-Iraq Affair, Gerald James (Warner Books, 1996), £8.99 An account of the Thatcher government's involvement in the covert arms trade - by the man who turned Astra Fireworks into a £100 million arms manufacturer. The updated edition which includes the Scott Report findings. Corporate Mercenaries: The threat of private military and security companies, Fabien Mathieu and Nick Dearden (War on Want, 2006), pbk £2.00 A key report on the rise of private military ane security companies, including examples from Colombia and Iraq. The Raytheon 9 - Resisting War Crimes is Not a Crime, Eamonn McCann (The Derry Anti-War Coalition, 2008), pmphlt £2.00 The story of the occupation of the Raytheon arms factory in Northern Ireland, which provides bombs for the Israeli air force. How Europe Armed for War (1871-1914), JT Walton Newbold (Blackfriars Press, London, 1916), hbk £12.00 A famous look at the early years of what became known as the military-industrial complex. Arms Transfer Limitations and Third World Security, (Ed) Thomas Ohlson (SIPRI / Oxford University Press, 1988), £26.00 Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs - Waste and Blundering in the Military, Lewis Page (Arrow Books, London, 2007), pbk £8.99 A new edition, with a new Afterword by the author, of a book originally pubished in 2006. Though note that this is not written by an anti-militarist! Arms or Aid, Hugh Reay (Housmans, for War on Want, London, 1967), pmphlt £1.00 The text of Lord Reay's address to the War on Want Convention held in London in the autumn of 1966. Thus Spake Zaharoff: How the "merchants of death" see themselves and their trade, with quotations and comments, Donald Rodger (Campaign Against Arms Trade, London, 1980), pmphlt £1.50 Wildcat: Anarchists Against the Bomb, Donald Rooum (Freedom Press, 2003), pbk £3.00 Anti-arms trade comic strips. The Arms Bazaar - The Companies, The Dealers, The Bribes: from Vickers to Lockheed, Anthony Sampson (Coronet, 1978), £4.00 The Political Economy of NATO - Past, Present, and into the 21st Century, Todd Sandler & Keith Hartley (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pbk £7.50 Making Arms, Wasting Skills: Alternatives to militarism and arms production, Steve Schofield (Campaign Against Arms Trade, London, 2008), pbk £3.00 The latest useful background report from CAAT - which is a good example of a peace organisation which gains credibility for its ideas by having well-researched information to support its arguments. Military Inc - Inside Pakistan's Military Economy, Ayesha Siddiqa (Pluto Press, 2007), pbk £19.99 Does democracy have a future after the merging of the military and corporate sectors? Private Warriors, Ken Silverstein (Verso, 2000), £10.00 A journalist researches aspects of the military-industrial complex in the USA. The International Trade in Arms, John Stanley and Maurice Pearton (Chatto & Windus for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1972), pbk £4.00 The Economics of Militarism, Dan Smith & Ron Smith (Pluto Press, 1983), £4.50 The Facade of Arms Control: How the UK's export licensing system facilitates the arms trade, Anna Stavrianakis (Campaign Against Arms Trade, 2008), pmphlt, £3.00 The Small Arms Trade - a beginner's guide, Rachel Stohl, Matt Schroeder and Dan Smith (Oneworld Publications, Oxford, 2007), pbk £9.99 A useful introduction to the issue from three US researchers. As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela - Underground Adventures in the Arms & Torture Trade, Mark Thomas (Ebury Press, 2007), pbk £7.99 Disarmament: What it would mean to Britain's economy (United World Trust, London, 1963), pmphlt £3.00 The Armour-Plated Ostrich: The Hidden Costs of Britain's Addiction to the Arms Business, Tim Webb (Comerford & Miller, 1998), pbk £9.99 Showing how Britain developed weapons that didn't work to confront an enemy that no longer existed. Bribing for Britain: Government Collusion in Arms Sales Corruption, Tim Webb (Campaign Against Arms Trade, 2007) pmphlt, £3.00 ORGANISATIONS you can contact which are concerned with some of the issues here include: Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), 11 Goodwin St, London N4, Britain (+44-20-7281 0297) (fax 7281 4369) (e-mail enquries@caat.org.uk) (web htpp://www.caat.org.uk). For further useful contacts see the Directory published in the latest Housmans Peace Diary.