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One cannot understand the international politics of arms control without taking into account the domestic political forces which have a stake in maintaining large defence expenditure. Analyse these force which help in promoting international arms races.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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The classical explanation of arms races is action–reaction: Lewis Fry Richardson modelled each state's armament as a response to its rival's, the arms-race face of the security dilemma. The statement adds a second engine located inside the arming state. In his farewell address of January 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against the unwarranted influence of…

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  • The domestic forces
  • How they shape arms control
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