Help regarding a project.

[akshat]

Hi,
I am Akshat Agarwal, a 3rd year student of BITS-Pilani Goa Campus. I've been a military enthusiast for many years now. Being an economics student, I've particularly developed interest in economics of global arms trade.

Recently, I've been given an opportunity to pursue a project wherein I've to compare the arms' trade of the five major nations viz USA, USSR, UK, France, Germany during the cold war (1980-1985) and post Sept.11 (2000-2005).

I recently came across this forum and I was amazed at the wealth of knowledge present in the threads. I would be grateful if somebody on this forum could provide me with some links or information that would help me progress in my project.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Akshat-Agarwal

 

[kato]

Try SIPRI's Arms Transfer Project, they're pretty good for that kind of stuff. In particular their database.

 

[Systems Adict]

While there is a general wealth & dearth of knowledge on THIS website, when researching something, sometimes it worthwhile to state the obvious & suggest you try search engines like Google, dogpile, ask, etc.

I found this while "googling", & using the search string below...

"Arms trade during the cold war"

http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp


Hope this helps

Systems Adict


PS Just noticed it's using SPIRI as one of it's sources for data...oops !