Southeast Asia’s arms market : growing ‘commoditisation’?

• Main Author: Bitzinger, Richard A.
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93802; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38364
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

If arms sales are increasingly a commodity business, governed mainly by price, it could increase regional militaries’ access to advanced military equipment and technologies. Still, other factors affect any true “commoditisation” of the regional arms market.