Military R&D after the Cold War: Conversion and Technology Transfer in Eastern and Western Europe: 6 (NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 4, 6) - Tapa dura

 
9780792341390: Military R&D after the Cold War: Conversion and Technology Transfer in Eastern and Western Europe: 6 (NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 4, 6)
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ISBN 10: 0792341392 ISBN 13: 9780792341390
Editorial: Springer, 1996

Sinopsis

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.

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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.

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The particular emphasis of Military R&D After the Cold War is on questions of conversion from military to civil purposes, and on the scope today for technology transfer between the traditional eastern and western sides of the Cold War. The book contains contributions from both academic analysts and practitioners with considerable experience of dealing with these issues. It therefore offers a unique combination of theoretical analysis and well founded case studies, together with important shared experiences between the very different economic circumstances found on the two sides of the old East-West divide.
Audience: All those with an interest in defence conversion and, more broadly, all those concerned with technology policy and issues of industrial competitiveness.

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Editorial
Springer
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0792341392
ISBN 13 
9780792341390
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
216
Editor
Farkas Janos, Boutoussov Mikhail, Gummett Philip
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9789401072755: Military R&D after the Cold War: Conversion and Technology Transfer in Eastern and Western Europe: 6 (NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 4)

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