Trade has been booming. The WTO ( World Trade Organisation) estimated that world trade in goods grew 8 % in volume terms last year, this being four times the growth of world GDP (Gross Domestic Products). During the 1990s international trade has grown far faster than world output, showing that national economies are becoming more closely linked. Foreign direct investment, another gauge of international economies integration, is also soaring: last year, estimated the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, cross border investment increased by 40%, to $315 billion.

There has been much public debate within South Africa (RSA), especially since 1994, concerning the role of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) now that peace is the order of the day. Coupled to this is the perennial issue of insufficient funds to pay for all the services the government is expected to provide, and at the level with which all are satisfied. One of the hardest hit departments, from a budgetary point of view, is the Department of Defence (DoD), with funds been shifted to meet the ever increasing demand for socio-economic upliftment at the expense of defence. At the base of any argument concerning the issue of defence versus socio-economic upliftment, is the question of whether massive expenditure for defence in a peacetime environment is justifiable, seen in the light that many South Africans still do not have secure homes, access to acceptable education, medical facilities and potable water.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1988. / Vita. Bibliography: leaves [389]-419.

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Thesis (doctoral)--Kgl. Bayer. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. / Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (p. [vii]-xi).