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The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade Hardcover – 3 Nov 2011

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 704 pages
  • Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (3 Nov. 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0241144418
  • ISBN-13: 978-0241144411
  • Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 4.5 x 24 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 732,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Andrew Feinstein has written an authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, heartbreaking and enraging (Arundhati Roy )

The nobility and justice of Feinstein's sentiments are indisputable. The arms trade is a loathsome commerce conducted by people who wear suits and occupy big boardroom tables, but should have trouble sleeping at night (Sunday Times )

The Shadow World peels back the veil of secrecy behind which the global arms trade undermines accountable democracy, socio-economic development and human rights, causing suffering across the world. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about justice, transparency and accountability in both the public and private spheres, and for anyone who believes that it is more important to invest in saving lives than in the machinery of death (Archbishop Desmond Tutu )

The Shadow World is the work of a knowledgeable, committed and angry activist . . . he has done a large service (Financial Times )

About the Author

Andrew Feinstein is the author of After the Party: A Personal and Political Journey Inside the ANC, a best-selling memoir of his time as an African National Congress Member of Parliament in South Africa. His journalism has been featured in the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Prospect, the New York Times, Der Spiegel, the New Statesman and Africa Report. In 2011 he authored the lead article in the authoritative Sipri Yearbook. He appears regularly on the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera. He has recently been an Open Society Institute International Fellow and is the founding co-director of Corruption Watch, an anti-corruption NGO, and chairperson of the Aids charity FoTAC.



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Format: Hardcover
I downloaded the audiobook but I will also get the paper copy because this one is worth keeping on the shelve once you have read it. This has to be the most thoroughly researched, the most up-to-date and the most significant book on the topic of the arms industry, I have read .. and, in fact, I am not aware of any other book so precise and so damming at the same time..
This book deserves a great deal more publicity than it has received to date .. I expect it will be widely quoted by future historians ....
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After Michael Klare's book on the scarce natural resources and the exploitation and Yergin's tomes Prize and Quest - this is a great work on the murky global arms trade - which was fueled and prolonged many an unwanted civil and regional conflict esp in the third world countries.

Its a sordid tale of immense greed ,corruption , lack of morals and collusion at the highest and unexpected government levels and amazingly the UK and US are in the forefront apart from the usual suspects from China/Russia/Israel which would probably need an entire book in itself.

Its always been a wonder why the rich Arab countries like the UAE needed such advanced weapon systems when they clearly faced neither the threat nor the capability - this exposes why .

A must read - the only other book on similar lines was the arms bazaar by Anthony Sampson in the late 70's which exposed Lockheed and other US companies in Japan
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I am a slow reader at the best of times, and it took me quite a few weeks to carve my way through the some 600 pages of this tome. It was very, very worthwhile as the author goes into tremendous detail about this very doubtful world. Sleazy and disgusting, I will never view any politician in the same way again. Whether we are in Africa, the Middle East or Latin America, the havoc wreaked by the arms manufacturers and dealers is mind boggling. Thank you Mr. Feinstein for a very informative, and slightly unnerving, read.
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Yes, scary stuff but why campaigners against the arms trade are amongst the most serious minded in our society. This bloody trade really does profit from murder and misery arouns the planet and one wonders whether they invented this revolting war on terror as some kind of marketing tool.
Seriously though this is the first book on this seamy topic since Anthony Sampson's The Arms Bazaar in the 1980s, so if you care about humanity, chldren, the rule of law etc. - get this and let it inform the rest of your life. I'm afraid the BBC are not interested in bringing these excessive horrors of capitalism to your attention as Paxman and his ilk lost their spine long long ago.
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In this compelling critique, corruption watchdog Andrew Feinstein argues that the military-industrial complex is riddled with corruption and bribery. Feinstein outlines the sordid history of arms deals in recent decades, focusing on dubious deals involving Saudi Arabia and South Africa. The author makes his biases clear but still serves up a detailed, thought-provoking exposé of the underworld of big-time weapons sales. He supplies the dates, the names and the numbers, leaving little doubt of his veracity or tenacity. Dick Cheney fans won't like Feinstein's conclusions, but others should approach them with an open mind. getAbstract recommends this well-researched muckraking report to those intrigued by the worldwide trade in arms.
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Very well researched and written as well as being a very scary insight into the trade in arms, government complicity and the huge amounts of money to be made from kickbacks on the deals - and how the system of kickbacks work!
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