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Phenomenal World · Global
Arms Markets
The piece treats the arms trade not as a grim appendix to geopolitics but as a core market form of the contemporary state: industrial policy, alliance management, export finance, and strategic dependency braided together. Its likely strength is to show how the military economy is no longer simply American command plus client demand, but a fragmented political economy in which middle powers, firms, and procurement regimes remake sovereignty through weapons flows.
This is the week’s strongest candidate for a structural, not event-driven, reading of power.
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