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  1. Arms race

    arms race, a pattern of competitive acquisition of military capability between two or more countries. The term is often used quite loosely to refer to any military buildup or spending increases by a group of coun…

  2. To Arms, To Arms: What Do We Know About Arms Races?

    Recent studies of arms races and war embed the presence of an arms race as part of a more extensive model. A significant portion of this work builds on Senese and Vasquez’s steps-to …

  3. Arms Race: Definition, Cold War & Nuclear Arms

    An arms race occurs when countries increase their military resources to gain superiority over one another, such as the U.S. and Soviet Union in the Cold War.

  4. Arms Races

    An important, broad collection of interdisciplinary essays, offering a useful survey of various cognitive, behavioral, and “traditional” arms-race models, interpretations, and …

  5. Arming and Arms Races

    Arming and Arms Races. James D. Fearon Department of Political Science Stanford University. DRAFT. March 24, 2011. Abstract. consider a model of arming in which states choose in …

  6. Transcript: The Coming Arms Race: Russia, China, America and …

    The new arms race will involve much more than nuclear weapons. Russia is also preparing for asymmetric competition. I'll just mention briefly the anti-satellite weapon that we continue to …

  7. (PDF) THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ARMS …

    This chapter reviews the literature on causes of arms races, their consequences , and when a state should build up arms and engage in an arms race if necessary. The literature tends to equate external causes with threats; the …

  8. Arms Races: An Assessment of Conceptual and Theoretical …

    The arms race phenomenon has received considerable attention from scholars over many decades because of the ubiquity, throughout history, of states building arms as a means of …

  9. (PDF) Arms race in the 21st century: Consequences and …

    In the debate over their consequences, one side holds that arms races increase the probability of war by undermining military stability and straining political relations. The opposing view holds that engaging in an arms race is often a …