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| Title: | The Recent Militarisation Trends in SubSaharan Africa |
| Author: | Mohammed, Nadir A.L. |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 77-96 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
| Subjects: | public expenditure defence Military, Defense and Arms Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43657959 |
| Abstract: | Third World military expenditure increased enormously after World War II. Indeed, from 1965 to 1985, and again in 1990, military expenditure in less developed countries increased faster than that in developed countries. However, one should not consider the Third World as a homogeneous group. Breaking down the Third World into smaller groups with similar security webs and economic and political conditions facilitates closer investigation of the economic issues related to military spending. The author chose a sample of thirteen sub-Saharan African countries which have a number of geographical, ethnic, cultural and social characteristics in common - Benin, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zaire - and analysed the changes over time in the level of military expenditure, the proportion of the total population that are military personnel, the capital cost component of military expenditure, and the level of arms imports. He found that despite considerable variations between these countries, the levels of their military burden, armed forces size and arms imports were lower than those in other Third World regions. Moreover, the magnitude of these indicators of militarization started to decline in the 1980s in most sub-Saharan African countries, in contradiction with the general trend of escalation in the level of militarization of less developed countries. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French. |
