Arms Trade In The Arms War

Lets start out with the good things that Russia’s economy has. Russia has an more than enough natural resources. They have plenty of timber, precious metals, oil, gas, and coal. Those resources being exported could easily benefit their economy if it wasn’t for other countries who produce more of the resources taking their potential

Russia has built a strong, but stagnating economy on several natural resources to include the refinery and export of natural gas and oil. According to the Jim Picht (2014) exportation of natural gas and oil to Eastern Europe account for 70 percent of Russia’s exports and 53 percent of the government’s revenue. Along with exporting oil to Eastern Europe, Russia also exports too many countries to include China and Belarus. Europe fueled majority by Russian supplied natural gas and oil, the dependency of Europe’s need for this natural resource is the reason Russia’s economy is so strong. In 2014, when Russia decided to invade the neighboring country of Ukraine has led Europe to begin searching for other suppliers of their natural resources. If Europe finds other countries to supply the natural resources

Russian technology was decades behind the west, Russia was the last of the ‘great powers’ to industrialise thus found it difficult to compete with more experienced adversaries, conditions within Russian factories were poor and workers had no voice as a result of the ban upon Unions. Despite Russia’s huge mineral and resource deposits they still lagged behind western nations in

Between 2000 and 2012, Russia's energy exports fueled a rapid growth in living standards, with disposable income rising by 160%. However, these gains are unevenly distributed as 110 of the wealthiest people in the country were found to own 35% of all financial assets held by Russian households. Moscow has been named the "billionaire capital of the world" by Forbes since 2008. Russia also has the second largest volume of illicit money outflows, having lost over $880 billion between 2002 and 2011. The Russian Economy consists of high-income mixed with state ownership in strategic areas of the economy. In the 1990’s market, reforms privatized much of Russian industry and agriculture, with notable exceptions in the energy and defense-related sectors. Russia is among one of the major economies in the world because it relies on energy revenues to drive economic growth. The country has an abundance of natural resources such as oil, natural gas and precious metals, which make up most of Russia's exports. In 2012 as surveyed was done and found out that the oil and gas sector of Russia accounted for 16% of the GDP, 52% of federal budget revenues and over 70% of total exports. Russia has a very sophisticated and large arms industry, capable of designing and manufacturing high-tech military equipment, such as fifth-generation fighter jets. The value of Russian arms exports totaled $15.7 billion in 2013 second only to

Today’s Russian military consists of Ground Troops, Navy, Air Forces, and Airborne Troops. These branches receive a $69 billion annual defense budget, which ranks 3rd behind only China and the United States (Gavin, 2017). Their military is built from 18-27 years old citizens with a service obligation of at least 1 year (reserve obligation, for non-officers, goes up to the age of 50). The Russian military arsenal includes; tanks, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, carriers and warships, and submarines. In comparison to the United States, the Russian military has 3 times as many tanks and 35 times more

Within the last ten years, Russia has attracted foreign direct investment at 3.3%. In the past 20 years, Russia has fallen behind dropping to “93rd globally in quality of overall” infrastructure (Eitelhuber, 2009). Russia’s Railway infrastructure is ranked 31st, this placement is relatively high. Over 300 projects have surfaced in the past five years. Estimated funding at 969.4 B dollars. The benefits from operating at a lower global rate include lowered production cost and increased net output for national economy. A stable economic home front improves a nation and even

1. This paper will argue that, in its current state, the sale of foreign arms does not support United States (US) foreign policy. The sale of US arms exacerbates conflict in the Middle East and contributes to human rights abuses.1 The Obama administration implemented a “Conventional Arms Transfer Policy” in 2014 to control arms sales and prevent human rights abuses while providing the weapons countries need to defend themselves in order to prevent the need for US boots on the ground.2 However, these measures are not enough and US weapons can and do still end up in the hands of terrorists.1

Syria is still a developing country in the Middle East. Its economy is based on agriculture and oil. Just these two pillars in the Syrian economy make up for about one half of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Since the start of the Syrian civil war, Syria’s economy has taken a huge hit. The government has restricted trade between several countries such as the United States, Japan, and Australia. As a result, Syria has been faced with a major economic decline. These restrictions have reversed the otherwise growing economy. According to the United Nations (UN), there have been an estimated 143 billion dollars in economic damages as a result of the civil war.

The concept of the current Arms Trade Treaty can be traced back to the 1990’s, but the concept of a treaty that regulates the trade of small firearms and conventional weapons can be dated back up to the 1940’s. In 2006 the notion of an arms trade treaty was introduced to the United for the first time, at which they started a draft. This eventually turned into the treaty that passed on Tuesday 2 April 2013, signed by 118 states and ratified by 41. The intention of this treaty is to control the global trade of small firearms and keep them from getting into the hands of gangs, terrorists groups, pirates or any other people who could potentially bring harm to anyone. To do this the ATT establishes one global set of standards for the trade of conventional weapons and implements international standards that are required to be met before any nations can commence in the trade of weapons. Non-Government organizations have lately been the greatest supports of the ATT by recognizing the need for a set of international laws that governs the trade of weapons uniformly for all countries, and seeing the potential in the treaty to reduce, or even eliminate the $8 million loss in Africa alone annually due to weapons that are “lost” or “stolen”. In fact, arms trade corruption is responsible for approximately 50% of all globally corrupt trades, despite

Russia is likely to join the WTO (World Trade Organization) in the current year. Its the largest economy outside the 153 members of the WTO. This would improve the trade agreements between all the countries of the organization. (Wall Street Journal, 2010).

of Russia’s oil, has been 100 percent state-owned since its creation in 1992(Transneft, 2012).This response was part of the emergence of a broader state-capitalist model of political and economic development. Economically, this has involved increasing statecontrol over strategic sectors of the Russian economy beyond oil and gas, such as banking, electric power, the media, aviation, the automotive industry, machine- building (Pappe and Drankina, 2007b) and weapons trading (Rosoboronexport, 2012),in addition to already-existing state participation in telecoms (Rostelecom, 2012) andrailways (RZD, 2012).State control over strategic energy companies through formal ownership wasaugmented by the presence of state officials on the boards of these companies(Interfax, 2011) and by the development of legislation on strategic sectors and subsoiluse (Liuhto, 2008, p.2-6). This legislation restricted foreign ownership or control over companies or natural resources designated as strategic, or of federal importance.The economic aspects of this model of development coincided with the increasedcentralisation of political power and the establishment of what became known as the power vertical (Sukhov, 2008). Whilst a lack of space here prevents a deeper discussion of the political aspects of state capitalism during the Putin Presidency, itcan be argued that the economic and political aspects of Russia’s state capitalistmodel of

One major issue about arms trading is how prevalent it has been in the Middle East and how it affects the area. Starting back with the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf War following when arms trading in the Middle East became more pronounced, it also started to become an issue. The United States, the Soviet Union and other countries supported Iran and Iraq and supplied them with weapons. The New York Times notices the issues with this war and talks about how “the Administration needs to prepare for the possibility

I found a wide scope of information about the international market of Russia, including information about the culture, infrastructure, economy, communication, political structure to eventually decide if Seventh Generation Baby Diapers should enter this market. Russia has transitioned from an extremely controlled economy into a rapidly growing market-oriented economy in the last 17 years. It is one of the world’s largest economies with a GDP per capita of __________. Along with this growth, the middle class started playing a more significant role in Russia’s national economy. Russia also has the largest territory in the world, with an area of 6,601,668 square miles of land, while the United States contains 3,794,100 square miles. Along with a diverse economy, the large territory of land, Russia’s technology plays an incredibly significant role in improving Russia's economy and society as whole.

The economy of Russia was forecast to grow in 2013 at a lesser pace anticipated at the beginning of the year and its performance will be better in 2014. This is attributed to weak tapering consumer demand and weak investment. In 2014, the Gross Domestic Product rose by 1.4% contrary to the expectations of 3.2%. The economists are pessimistic about the wellbeing of their economy come 2015, forecasting a growth of 2% against the 2.5% for the ministry’s economy. The vast economic parameter of Russia is controlled by oil production.

In this paper, the author attempt to shed light on the introduction the international trade policy of Russia. For this purpose, the author studied the international trade pattern of Russia through the analysis of geography, historical and economical factors. The previous studies analyzed the international trade policies of Russia on the basis of their domestic factors. But, the significance of this study rests upon the fact that it endeavors to explore the international relationship with other countries from the economical and political angles. For this analysis, the basic structures of this paper are as follows. First, we stated flatly the overall trade pattern and trade structure of Russia based on the financial transactional data. Second, the commodity structure was found to have a significant effect on the international trade policy of Russia, so I introduced some important components of trade policy which already been taken by Russia. Third, the involvement in regional trade activity was revealed to have a greater influence on the trade policy, so I presented the agreements Russia reached with other countries and emphasize the relationship and disputes with United States. The results of this study suggest the international trade policy of Russia from the perspective of relationship with other countries that should have been considered important.