The modern defense industry
Subtitle: political, economic, and technological issues
By: Richard A. Bitzinger, editor.
Contributors: Bitzinger, Richard.
Publisher: Praeger Security International/ABC-CLIO
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780275994754; 9781567207491
Subjects: Defense industries; Weapons industry; Globalization; Defense industries -- International cooperation; Weapons industry -- International cooperation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Challenges facing the global arms industry in the 21st century / Richard A. Bitzinger; title: pt. I. The defense industry in a global context; title: Developments in the global arms industry since the end of the Cold War to the mid-2000s / J. Paul Dunne ; with the SIPRI Arms Production Program staff; title: The defense iron triangle revisited / Ron Matthews and Curie Maharani; title: Power, influence, and hierarchy : defense industries in a unipolar economy / Stephanie G. Neuman; title: The evolution of international defense hierarchies / Philip Finnegan; title: The globalization of defense industries / Keith Hayward; title: The role, promise, and challenges of dual-use technologies in national defense / Kathleen A. Walsh; title: pt. II. The defense industry : regional perspectives; title: The revolution in military affairs, transformation, and the U.S. defense industry / Peter Dombrowski and Andrew L. Ross; title: The European defense industry in the 21st century : challenges and responses / Richard A. Bitzinger; title: The Russian defense industry 1991-2008 : from the collapse of the former Soviet Union to the global financial crisis / Eugene Kogan; title: Arms and autonomy : the implications of China's defense-industrial transformation / J.D. Kenneth Boutin; title: Emerging defense industries : prospects and implications / J.D. Kenneth Boutin; title: pt. III. The defense industry and the arms trade; title: Export controls and their relationship to national defense industries / Francis Cevasco; title: Offsets and international industrial participation / Bernard Udis; title: The global small arms industry : transformed by war and society / Aaron Karp; title: Appendix I: Key defense-industrial and arms trade-related terms / J.D. Kenneth Boutin; title: Appendix II: Organizations, associations, legislation, and initiatives relating the defense industry and the arms trade / Curie Maharani; title: Appendix III: Key defense companies / Richard A. Bitzinger.