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Author: Liba Paukert
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789221072874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the risk of conflict between the major military alliances diminishes, the prospects for disarmament improve. This book asks whether the defence industry can develop new products to maintain their workforce and looks at the socio-economic cost of diverting funds to civilian production.
Author: Derek Braddon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1317836510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom a cold war peak of some $1000 billion per annum, world military expenditure has declined by about 40% since 1990, reaching its lowest level for thirty years. With such significant decline in global public expenditure committments to the defence sector, a substantial and lasting peace dividend was anticipated. Most governments believed that market forces, left more or less to their own devices, would deal effectively with this major exogenous shock and generate sufficient new economic activity to allow increased public expenditure on health, education and welfare. The approach of this book is to challenge the fundamental but flawed belief that a substantial and lasting peace dividend could be secured through market solution alone. The principal assertion is that market adjustment by itself cannot deliver such a dividend.The book focuses on the major aspects of the economic, business and security consequences of post Cold War defence expenditure reduction. Key problems obstructing optimal market response are identified and possible remedial action by government and others is considered.
Author: Daniel Fiott
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0429656726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an empirical understanding of how EU-level defence industrial cooperation functions in practice. Using the Liberal Intergovernmental theoretical model, the book argues that while national economic preferences are an essential factor of government interests they only explain part of the dynamic that leads to the development of defence industrial policy at EU level. Moving beyond a simple adumbration of economic preferences, it shows how the EU’s institutional framework and corpus of law are used by governments to reaffirm their position as the ultimate arbiter and promoter of national economic preferences in the defence industrial sector. To this end, the work asks why and how EU member state governments, European defence firms, and EU institutions developed EU-level defence industrial policy between 2003 and 2009. The book also analyses significant policy developments, including the establishment of a European Defence Agency and two EU Directives on equipment transfers and defence procurement. This book will be of much interest to students of EU policy, defence studies, security studies and International Relations in general.
Author: Fuller Peiser
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780727728166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report is the result of an extensive study that was undertaken to review the existing policy context of Ministry of Defence (MOD) disposals in England, and to advise Government on how it should seek to obtain value for money whilst having regard to the wider interest of Government. The research process involved five main areas of work - a literature search, a review of all relevant policy guidance, interviews and written consultations, seminars for property professionals and nine detailed case studies.
Author: Efraim Inbar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1135226946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a policy-relevant analysis of the complex web of contemporary economic trends, political developments and strategic considerations that are shaping the contours of the new post-Cold War world market for weaponry.
Author: Lloyd J. Dumas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-17
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1315482312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text discusses the economic, social and political implications of redirecting labour and capital from a military-based to a post-Cold War economy.
Author: Mary Kaldor
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2000-09-20
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1855676451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces the reader to works in the Wallace Collection through the voice of its Director.
Author: György Széll
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 1064
ISBN-13: 3110884801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter G. Batchelor
Publisher: Sipri Monograph
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780198294139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Batchelor and Susan Willett analyse the response of the South African defence industry to drastic cuts in military expenditure and the demilitarization of society since the end of the cold war and apartheid, and the stabilization of the regional security situation. The new ANC-led government is seeking to use the resources released - the `peace dividend' - to restructure and revitalize the country's industrial base and to support reconstruction, development, and redistribution. A lively debate on the country's security needs and strategic doctrine is under way. As in other countries, strategies of industrial diversification and conversion have met with limited success. In the absence hitherto of any coherent government policy on defence industrial adjustment, significant skills and technologies have been lost or wasted. This book provides a historical analysis of South Africa's unique opportunity to develop new and innovative policies on defence and security matters, the arms industry and arms exports, and makes a valuable contribution to the international debate on the relationship between disarmament and development.
Author: Frank Pyke
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9789221082569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased upon the experiences of a diverse set of countries - including Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Italy, Japan and the United States - this analysis describes the elements of a model small-firm network, and sets out the conditions, institutions and policies conducive to a successful strategy of upgrading industrial sectors. It is a valuable source of ideas and experience on this innovative approach to industrial development.
