TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wezeman,Siemon T.
ED  - SIPRI
TI  - Arms flows to South East Asia
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Solna
PB  - SIPRI
KW  - military expenditure
KW  - arms trade
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - arms transfers
N1  - E-book; "December 2019"; The increased size and capabilities of most armed forces in South East Asia—coupled with increased tensions in the region, especially over the South China Sea—lead to more military forces operating in close proximity to ‘unfriendly’ forces. Mechanisms and agreed rules to deal with the overall tensions or with unexpected confrontations of opposing military forces are lacking, which does not make it easy to prevent incidents from escalating. Furthermore, weak transparency in foreign and defence policy poses a risk of misunderstandings about why South East Asian states acquire weapons, what their ‘red lines’ are and what the response to crossing those lines would be.
This report builds on the arms transfers and military expenditure databases at SIPRI, which are the result of many years of research by past and current members of what is now SIPRI’s arms and military spending programme.; SIP2023
UR  - https://www.sipri.org/publications/2019/other-publications/arms-flows-south-east-asia
ER  -