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Profiles of current Latin American arms producers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Robert E. Looney  and
P. C. Frederiksen
Robert E. Looney
Affiliation:
Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
P. C. Frederiksen
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
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In a recent article, Stephanie Neuman examines several critical factors that separate developing countries into arms producers and arms nonproducers. She ranks countries according to a weighted index of military production capability (derived from length of production, production capacity, and technical capabilities) and also according to the following seven socioeconomic indicators: population, land size, size of military, gross national product (GNP), GNP per capita, number of professional and technical workers, and number of industrial workers. She computes correlation coefficients (Kendall's tau) by region (Latin America, South Asia, and the Far East) and for twenty-six arms producers worldwide.

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International Organization , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , Summer 1986 , pp. 745 - 752
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1986

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References

1 Neuman, Stephanie, “International Stratification and Third World Military Industries,” International Organization (Winter 1984), pp. 167–97Google Scholar.

2 Ibid., pp. 185, 186.

3 Cf. the discussion in Katz, James, “Understanding Arms Production in Developing Countries,” in Katz, James, ed., Arms Production in Developing Countries (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1984), pp. 6–8Google Scholar, for several of these factors.

4 Ayres, Ron, “Arms Production as a Form of Import-Substituting Industrialization: The Turkish Case,” World Development (1983), p. 814Google Scholar.

5 In this note a country is classified as either a producer or a nonproducer of at least one major weapon system in 1979–80. The index of military capability that Neuman constructs to rank the countries is not employed. Neuman identifies the nine Latin American countries that are producers in “International Stratification,” Table 2, pp. 172–73.

6 On the technical exposition of this procedure, see Morrison, Donald, “On the Interpretation of Discriminant Analysis,” Journal of Marketing Research (05 1968), pp. 156–63Google Scholar. Computations were made using the program designed by the Statistical Analysis System Institute; see SAS Institute, Users Guide: Statistics, 1982 Edition (Cary, N.C.: SAS Institute, 1982)Google Scholar. Country data presented in World Bank, World Development Report: 1984 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984)Google Scholar. Military variables from United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers: 1972–1982 (Washington, D.C.: USACDA, 1984)Google Scholar.