Global Militarisation Index 2020 #GMI \ Worldwide trends in militarisation and what they may mean for trends in health security. bit.ly/36z4NSE 
#GMI 2020 focuses on the link between militarisation and health security. “It cannot be excluded that the high level of resources invested in the military in countries with a particularly high level of militarisation is at the expense of health provision”, the authors explain.
#Israel, #Armenia, #Oman, #Bahrain, #Singapore, #SaudiArabia, #Brunei, #Russia, #Kuwait and #Jordan are the Top 10 in militarisation. All countries in the Middle East are highly militarised by global comparison—six countries are from this region.
#Baltics and eastern European countries, are again continuing to arm themselves, pointing to ongoing tensions with #Russia. In #France (pos. 66) ), too, militarisation has risen since 2014.
In the #Asia–Pacific region, the strategic rivalry between #China (position 98) and the #UnitedStates (position 27) for regional influence intensifies the mutual threat perceptions and contributes to an arms build-up in the region.
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