Military R&D after the Cold War: Conversion and Technology Transfer in Eastern and Western Europe (1996) (NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 4 #6)
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- Synopsis
- Countries establish defence industries for various reasons. Chief among these are usually a concern with national security, and a desire to be as independent as possible in the supply of the armaments which they believe they need. But defence industries are different from most other industries. Their customer is governments. Their product is intended to safeguard the most vital interests of the state. The effectiveness of these products (in the real, rather than the experimental sense) is not normally tested at the time of purchase. If, or when, it is tested, many other factors (such as the quality of political and military leadership) enter into the equation, so complicating judgments about the quality of the armaments, and about the reliability of the promises made by the manufacturers. All of these features make the defence sector an unusually political industrial sector. This has been true in both the command economies of the former Soviet Union and its satellites, and in the market or mixed economies of the west. In both cases, to speak only a little over-generally, the defence sector has been particularly privileged and particularly protected from the usual economic vicissitudes. In both cases, too, its centrality to the perceived vital interests of the state has given it an unusual degree of political access and support.
- Copyright:
- 1996
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- ISBN-13:
- 9789400917309
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780792341390
- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands
- Date of Addition:
- 08/23/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
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- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Politics and Government
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- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Philip Gummett
- Edited by:
- Mikhail Boutoussov
- Edited by:
- Janos Farkas
- Edited by:
- Arie Rip
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