Arms Race
An arms race occurs when two or more nations compete in increases in military personnel and materiel. Simply defined as a competition between two or more states to have superior armed forces; a competition concerning production of weapons, the growth of a military, and the aim of superior military technology. The term is also used to describe any long-term escalating competitive situation where each competitor focuses on out-doing the others. The existing scholarly literature is divided as to whether arms races are correlated with war. International relations scholars explain arms races with the security dilemma, rationalist spiral models, states with …
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CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 16 May 2024 English
Vladimir Putin has reason to be confident that Russia can maintain current military spending levels for a relatively long time. This is bad news for Ukraine, its Western partners and …
Russia’s western periphery, and to take part in an arms race, especially in the nuclear realm and the development …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 10 May 2024 English
Using NielsenIQ Retail Scanner data, we estimate demand equations for e-cigarettes by nicotine concentration. Overall, the models show that the price elasticities of demand range from -2.117 to -1.494. In …
2021;385:2406–8. 18 Jackler RK, Ramamurthi D. Nicotine arms race: JUUL and the high-nicotine product market. Tob … 34 44 Jackler RK, Ramamurthi D. Nicotine arms race: JUUL and the high-nicotine product market. Tob …
RAND Corporation · 8 May 2024 English
Improvements in Russian and Chinese counterspace capabilities could endanger the space-based capabilities that the United States relies on for a broad array of military and economic functions. In this report, …
expressed greater concerns about the prospect of an arms race in space and has a history of cooperation with …
AIR Center: Center of Analysis of International Relations · 8 May 2024 English
The conditions that with partners, the fate of the Russian necessitated the peacekeepers' mission collapsed peacekeeping unit in Karabakh, given the changed following the removal of the Armenian separatist situation …
escalating Azerbaijan, potentially fueling an arms race and the risk of renewed hostilities. further destabilizing …
SWP: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik · 6 May 2024 German
SWP-Studie 2024/S 14, Mai 2024, 50 Seiten
Measures for the Pre- am 15.12.2023). vention of an Arms Race in Outer Space: Draft Resolution, 2023, 7 Kari …
Per Capita · 3 May 2024 English
Already, the most dominant players in AI are shaping up to be only a small handful of overseas companies, like Google, Microsoft and Meta.6 A report from the CSIRO which …
small handful of companies who are in an AI ‘arms race’19, trying to gain first mover advantage in the …
IFRI: Institut Français des Relations Internationales · 3 May 2024 French
The link between financial self-reliance and geopolitical power has long been debated. The unbalanced Sino-American trade relationship has created asymmetric financial ties which generate potential sources of leverage for both …
nuclear terror reflected the consequences of an arms race where both parties acquired similar military …
United Nations Security Council · 1 May 2024
On 18 and 24 April, the Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade of Malta presided over the quarterly open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including …
Member States (S/2024/302) on outer space and the arms race under Non-proliferation, was not adopted owing …
IISS: International Institute of Strategic Studies · 30 April 2024 English
Asia-Pacific countries' ballistic- and cruise-missile proliferation pathways have largely mirrored those of European states, but their participation in regimes aimed at managing the spread of such technology has been patchy. …
The Asia-Pacific is already in the midst of an arms race, with the development of ballistic and cruise …
Grattan Institute · 26 April 2024 English
Power system security problems:b involving the inability of the system to operate within the technical limits of the system, ∙ Network capacity – the availability of electricity in the right …
Rooftop solar, however, development, creating an arms race for labour, equipment, and 32. The LRET sits under …
