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Had not massive international aid started to flow to Kampuchean people in 1979, they would have died of starvation, diseases and exhaustion. The aid programme, one of the largest ever, used some 750 million dollars in 1979-81. More than half was used inside Kampuchea, while the refugees in Thailand and dislocated people in the disputed border zone between Thailand and Kampuchea received one fourth each. Socialist countries further sent aid worth some 480 million dollars. The programme was started 6-8 months late, and suffered all the time from political difficulties. The forms and distribution of aid between the three target areas differed from original plans since Thailand allowed much fewer refugees to enter the country than originally expected. Many would-be refugees had to remain in the war-torn border zone, where monitoring of aid was difficult because civilians were not clearly separated from the armed units. The main problem of aid was power politics. The lessons of this operation are: the obligation to receive international aid should be strengthened; the civilians should be clearly separated from soldiers in areas to be aided, and independence of humanitarian organizations should be strengthened. (Internat. Pol. Science Assoc.)

Der Aufsatz analysiert die Expansion des internationalen Waffenhandels, insbesondere in der Dritten Welt, als eine Folge u.a. der Transnationalisierung der Rüstungsindustrie. Auf der Grundlage vorliegender Statistiken und anderer Quellen wird diese Internationalisierung des Waffenhandels beschrieben. Die Waffen werden weitgehend in den Industrienationen hergestellt und exportiert. Dabei spielen die innen- und außenpolitischen Interessen der Exportländer und die ökonomischen Verwertungsinteressen der Rüstungsindustrie eine wesentliche Rolle. Die Rüstungsindustrie wird durch ihre Transnationalisierung zunehmend unabhängiger von den jeweiligen Staaten. Die internationale Rüstungsindustrie hat ein objektives Interesse am Wettrüsten, sie schafft aber auch neue Formen der internationalen Arbeitsteilung und Interessenverflechtung, die ambivalent zu beurteilen sind. (MH)