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Military R&d After the Cold War: Conversion and Technology Transfer in Eastern and Western Europe

Military R&d After the Cold War: Conversion and Technology Transfer in Eastern and Western Europe

Janos Farkas
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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 is not normally tested at the time of purchase. If, or when, it is tested, many other factors 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.
Language
English
Pages
202
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Springer
Release
September 22, 2011
ISBN
9401072752
ISBN 13
9789401072755

Military R&d After the Cold War: Conversion and Technology Transfer in Eastern and Western Europe

Janos Farkas
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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 is not normally tested at the time of purchase. If, or when, it is tested, many other factors 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.
Language
English
Pages
202
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Springer
Release
September 22, 2011
ISBN
9401072752
ISBN 13
9789401072755

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