Conflict in Context
Arms Transfers and Third World Rivalries during the Cold War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6231980 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Kinsella (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 557 |
| Publication date | 1994-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2111597 |
| OpenAlex | W2321705683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 13 |
I investigate the impact of superpower arms transfers on two enduring Third World rivalries. A time-series analysis suggests that Soviet and U.S. supplies to interstate rivals in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf are not parallel in their effects. Soviet transfers to Egypt and Syria exacerbated conflict in the Middle East, while U.S. transfers to Israel show no such propensity. There is also some evidence that U.S. arms supplies to Iran under Shah Pahlevi may have had a dampening effect on the Iran-Iraq rivalry. An action-reaction dynamic is apparent in superpower transfers to both the Middle East and Persian Gulf, although the reactive tendency was more pronounced in the U.S. policy. These results lend credence to a conceptual framework that highlights the congruent security orientations of arms suppliers and recipients
Cold war · Context (archaeology · Credence · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Geography · International trade · Middle East · Persian · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rivalry · Superpower · Third world · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Economic Sanctions and International Relations · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
Regions of War and Peace
Foreign Policy in Transition? Human Rights, Democracy, and U.S. Arms Exports
Arming the new Sheriff in Town
US Military Aid and Recipient State Cooperation
Ideology, territorial saliency, and geographic contiguity
Arms transfers and international relations theory
Taking “enduring” out of enduring rivalry
Turning down the heat
Nested rivalries
Arms production in the third tier
Open or Cease the Fire
Arms and Aggression in the Middle East, 1948-1991
The Arms Trade Treaty
The Path(s) to Rivalry
Power transfers, military uncertainty, and war
Economic Innovation, Systemic Leadership, and Military Preparations for War
Arms and Aggression in the Middle East
Cold War Imperatives and Quarrelsome Clients
Time Remembered
Human Rights and Democratic Arms Transfers
Arms imports in the wake of embargoes
Exporting the Bomb
Consensus and knowledge production in an academic field
Arms Transfer Dependence and Foreign Policy Conflict
Macroeconomics and Reality
Política entre las naciones
War and Change in World Politics
The Origins of Alliances
Interstate Wars in the Third World
Arms transfers and the onset of war part II
Controlling instability and conflict through arms transfers
Arms transfers and international behavior in the Arabian sea area
Beyond Correlations
Granger Causality and the Times Series Analysis of Political Relationships
Vector Autoregression and the Study of Politics
General Deterrence between Enduring Rivals
The Long Cycle of Global Politics and the Nation-State
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |