As the West’s power wanes in other areas, the arms industry is the perfect vehicle through which to assert itself. Vijay Prashad discusses the trade’s influence on international relations with Amy Hall.
‘We’ve made a religion of war,’ says Indian historian and journalist Vijay Prashad as he talks about the difficulties challenging military power.
It’s Remembrance Sunday and he’s in London promoting the book Monstrous Anger of the Guns: How the Global Arms Trade is Ruining the World and What We Can Do About It, to which he has contributed.
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