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Global Militarization Index 2017

出版	Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), 2017
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VoJsswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Compiled by BICC, the Global Militarization Index (gmi) presents on an annual basis the relative weight and importance of a country's military apparatus in relation to its society as a whole. The GMI 2017 covers 151 states and is based on the latest available figures (in most cases data for 2016). The index project is finan-cially supported by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The ten countries that have the highest levels of militarization for the year 2016 are Israel, Singapore, Armenia, Russia, South Korea, Kuwait, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece and Brunei. These countries allocate particularly high levels of resources to the armed forces in comparison to other areas of society. For some countries that are included in the top 20 militarized countries in the world, the sharp decline in the price of oil has led to a reduction in military expenditures: Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia but also Azerbaijan. In South American countries too, especially in Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico, the drop in oil prices caused military spending to fall more or less signifi-cantly. One regional focus of the GMI 2017 is the Americas: The two most militari-zed countries in the region are Cuba and the United States. US military spending increased again for the first time since 2009 and, at US.