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The Reference Shelf: U.S. National Debate Topic 2019-2020: Arms Sales

Table of Contents

Preface




1 History




Risk and Reward: The History of Arms Trading in the United States




A World of Weapons: Historians Shape Scholarship on Arms Trading




Where Did Iran Get Its Military Arms over the Last 70 Years?




“Merchants of Death”: The International Traffic in Arms




Let’s Talk about George H.W. Bush’s Role in the Iran-Contra Scandal




How British Businesses Helped the Confederacy Fight the American Civil War




As the US Entered World War I, American Soldiers Depended on Foreign Weapons Technology




Losing by “Winning”: America’s Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria




2 Economics of the Arms Trade




Checks and Balances: The Economy of Warfare




How the Arms Trade Is Used to Secure Access to Oil




The Global Arms Trade Is Booming: Buyers Are Spoiled for Choice




Defense Firms Say Trump’s Saudi Arms Deal Will Create 500 American Jobs, While Trump Claimed as Many as 500,000




Trump to Unleash More Global Arms Sales




Arming the World: Inside Trump’s “Buy American” Drive to Expand Weapons Exports




Why Congress Supports Saudi Arms Sales




3 Arms and Foreign Policy




Guns and Diplomats: The Arms Trade and Foreign Policy




The Trump Administration Has a Plan to Compete with Russia and China over Weapon Sales




After Khashoggi, US Arms Sales to the Saudis Are Essential Leverage




US Remains Top Arms Exporter, but Russia Is Nipping at Its Heels




U.S. Approves New Military Sale to Taiwan, Drawing China’s Ire




U.S. Policy in the Arabian Peninsula: An Evaluation




Why Military Assistance Programs Disappoint: Minor Tools Can’t Solve Major Problems




America Needs to Sell More Weapons




Japan Wants Cruise Missiles (and That Should Terrify China or North Korea)




The New Iron Curtain: Russian Missile Defense Challenges U.S. Air Power




The Uneasy Co-Existence of Arms Exports and Feminist Foreign Policy




4 The Wrong Hands: Arms Deals, War, and Terror




The Wrong Hands




Sale of U.S. Arms Fuels the Wars of Arab States




Time to Rethink America’s Vast Arms Deals




Fired Up Over Firearms: How Do Export Controls Relate to 3-D Printing of Guns?




Pentagon Loses Track of $500 Million in Weapons, Equipment Given to Yemen




Can Selling Weapons to Oppressive and Violent States Ever Be Justified?




American Weapons in the Wrong Hands




5 The Human Cost




The Human Dimension: Arms Trades and Human Rights




How U.S. Guns Sold to Mexico End Up with Security Forces Accused of Crime and Human Rights Abuses




Ukraine: US Arms Sales Making Big Business Money While Ordinary People Pay the Price




U.S. Points Finger, and Arms Exports, at Human Rights Abusers




Want to Punish Saudi Arabia? Cut Off Its Weapons Supply




Trump Will Fuel War across World by Increasing U.S. Global Arms Sales




Arms Sales to Saudi “Illicit” Due to Civilian Deaths in Yemen: Campaigners




Trump’s Arms Exports Rules Will Undermine US Security and Risk Human Rights Abuses




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