text: and developnent, A nost instructive phenonenon witnessed throughout the 1970s is that several arns importers involved in adversary relationships with geographic .:eigirbouru tiave expe:::n:ed ,r . "ss frequent outbreak of conflict if their initial v37/386 EngI ish Annex Page 49 vreapons inports have not undergone a subsequent change in the terns of transferwith the supplier. fr/ tne repeatedly stated apprehensions about the threats ofsupplier interference in the dor€stic and external affairs of the recipients and the subsequent denands for rnore weaponry by the latter can be interpreted asreflecting a phenonenon of "induced nilitarization'. 60/ Even those recipients uhose balance-of-paynents problens are not aggravated do not seen innune to the other and npre socially relevant costs of weapons inports, rxrre so when thesophisticated nature of the hardware purchased requires supportive equitment and services alien to the socio-cultural environrnent of the recipienta. 103. The groning evidence of domestic arna.ment production ventures anong the developing countries can be partly attributed to an increasing reluctance on theirpart to get sucked into the pol itico-str ateg ic environnent of the suppliers. 5J/Similar factors are also evident when several recipients either change supfrliers or €qne look for terns of transfer strlctly conflned to cormerciaL agreernents. The econonic costs of setting up donestic arnament industries and the additional Eoclalcosts of reliance upon armE imports rnake the rnilitary outlays of the aleveloping countries highly sehsitive to reallocation proposals. 62/ Their involvenent inconfliet situations of thelr own environrnent and their vulnerability to those oftheir supPliers make it imperative that proposals for restraining arns transfers tothe reciplents be urgently related to a resolution of the conflicts surroundingthen. Superimposing the suppliers' views of m.rtually deterrent arns build-ups uponthe adversary relationships anong the recipients ill only expand rather than limit
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the phenomenon of arms imports and exports, the economic costs of arming developing countries, and the potential consequences of supplier interference in the domestic and external affairs of recipients. It also touches on the issue of domestic armament production and the sensitivity of military outlays to reallocation proposals. Given these themes, it is likely that the text falls under the category of International trade, as it deals with the transfer of goods (arms) between countries.