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Arms and Conflicts in the Post-Cold War Developing World

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The end of the Cold War seems to have simultaneously generated two mutually competing and incompatible tendencies with regard to the situation for peace and security in the ‘Third World’.

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Muni, S.D. (1996). Arms and Conflicts in the Post-Cold War Developing World. In: van de Goor, L., Rupesinghe, K., Sciarone, P. (eds) Between Development and Destruction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24794-3_10

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