Citation

Wallace MD. J. Peace Res. 1998; 35(1): 119-121.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0022343398035001008

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The recent article by Susan Sample (1997) has performed an enormous service to the debate over the arms race / war relationship In particular, two nagging issues have now been put to rest. The first concerns the best index to use when converting military expenditure data into a measurement of arms races. She makes a second important contribution by sorting out the different criteria to choose the test population of arms races in the various competing studies.