Mehrl, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-5825-9256 and Thurner, P.W. (2024) The Interwar Period International Trade in Arms: A New Dataset. Journal of Conflict Resolution. ISSN 0022-0027
Abstract
International weapons transfers send military capabilities, make arms production economically feasible, and construct security relations. They influence buyers’ and sellers’ foreign policies, domestic politics, and military spending behavior. However, data availability has limited their study to the bipolar Cold War and unipolar post-Cold War periods. We thus introduce the Interwar Period International Trade in Arms (IPITA) data, covering dyadic transfers of small arms, light weapons, ammunition, explosives, and major conventional weapons in the years 1920–1939. The IPITA data will offer new avenues to study the drivers, dynamics, and consequences of arms transfers, both in past and future multipolar systems.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2024. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the Sage and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | arms trade; network data; historical data; military capabilities; international relations |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2024 15:52 |
Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2024 15:52 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/00220027241228189 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:208735 |
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