The economics of killing : how the West fuels war and poverty in the developing world

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Author:

Mehta, Vijay, 1940-

ISBN:

9780745332246

9780745332253

Personal Author:

Mehta, Vijay, 1940-

Publication Information:

London : Pluto Press, 2012.

Physical Description:

ix, 237 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX - POWER, MYTHS, FACTS AND FIGURES -- 1.How the West's Addiction to Arms Sales Caused the 2008 Financial Crisis -- 2.What is the Military-Industrial Complex? -- 3.The Culture of Militarism and Global North's Power of Definition -- 4.Europe and the Remaking of the Middle East -- pt. II MILITARY SPENDING AND ITS ILL EFFECTS -- 5.Negative Effects of Conflicts on Global and Human Security, Refugees, Forced Migrations and Urbanisation -- 6.War and its Ill Effects on Health, Environment and Development -- pt. III THE FOLLY OF CHRONIC WARS - FOR PROFIT, RESOURCES AND DOMINATION - MORE WEAPONS - MORE WARS - MORE PROFITS -- 7.Terrorism and Non-State Actors, and How to Make Them Stop -- 8.China's Periphery - The Military-Industrial Mess That Could Destroy a Bright Future -- 9.The Emerging Conflicts - Other Future Fault-lines of the World --

Contents note continued: pt. IV A NEW VISION, A NEW BEGINNING IN A NEW MILLENNIUM - A PRACTICAL WAY OF REDUCING ARMS, ARMIES AND WARS FOR THE SURVIVAL OF HUMANITY -- 10.Averting Disaster - What Type of Global Security Architecture Fits in Today's World? -- 11.Replacing the Military-Industrial Complex - Making the Twenty-first Century the Century of Soft Power.

Subject Term:

Economic development -- Developing countries.

War -- Political aspects -- Developing countries.

Poverty -- Political aspects -- Developing countries.

World politics -- 21st century.

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Summary

Globalisation has created an interconnected world, but has not diminished violence, militarism and inequality. This book describes how the entrenched power of global elites has created a deadly cycle of violence, enacted through the military industrial complex.

Vijay Mehta shows how attempts at peaceful national development, environmental sustainability and human rights are routinely blocked by Western powers. He locates the 2008 financial crisis in US attempts to block China's model of development. He shows how Europe and the US conspire with regional dictators to prevent countries from developing advanced industries, and how this system has fed terrorism.

The Economics of Killing argues that a different world is possible, based on policies of disarmament, demilitarisation and sustainable development.