Sean M. DiGiovanna, Ann Markusen

From Defense to Development? (eBook, ePUB)

International Perspectives on Realizing the Peace Dividend

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This impressive book tracks the progress of twelve countries on five continents in moving resources from defense to civilian activity in the 1990's. Based on intensive field research, thanks to its truly international array of contributors, the book addresses each country with an impressive standard of scholarship. This accessible book is written in non-technical language and will be of great use and interest to academics involved with defense economics, defense studies and development studies. It will also prove popular with international development organizations, the defense industry and policy-makers around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134351435
• Artikelnr.: 47884719

Autorenporträt

Ann Markusen is an economist, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Director of the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA. Sean DiGiovanna is Assistant Professor in Urban Studies at Rutgers University, USA. Michael C. Leary is at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. From Defence to Development? Ann Markusen and Sean DiGiovanna 2. Post
Cold War Conversion: Gains, Losses and Hidden Changes in the US Economy
Michael Oden, Laura Wolf-Powers, and Ann Markusen 3. Spanish Defense
Industrial Restructuring in the Post-Cold War Decade Antonia Casellas 4.
The Polish Defense Industry: REstructuring in the Midst of Economic
Transition Marla Nelson 5. The Dismantling of the Argentine Defense
Industry Graziellla Cavicchia 6. Diversification and Niche Market
Exporting: The Restructuring of Israel's Defense Industry in the Post-Cold
War Era ^David Lewis 7. Defense Conversion in South Africa: A Lost
Opportunity Soraya Goga 8. Diversification of Defense Based Industries in
India Sudha Maheshwari 9. Defense Conversion in China: an Economic Review
Shaolin Chen 10. The South Korean Defense Industry in the Post Cold War Era
Yong-Sook Lee and Ann Markusen