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Generalizations about the relationship between military spending and economic perofmance in developing countries are difficult to make a net, given the state of research, must be considred quite tentative. If anything, the available literature tends to fall back on the old guns versus butter analogy, stressing the negative economic impacts associated with increased defence expenditures. Without quibbling with this orientation, it is nonethelesss somewhat suprisding that so little analysis has yet been attempted to answer the question: why, if military expenditure does ifcat retard growth, developing countries increase such expenditures even during periods of time when the resulting domestic strains purporteddly undermine social and political stability? This volume is divided into three parts: Part I (Comprising chapters 1-6); Part 2 (Comprasing chapters 7-10 and Part 3 (Chapter II).