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Keith Hartley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Economics of Defence
Research Papers in Economics, 2001Co-Authors: Keith Hartley, Todd SandlerAbstract:Volume 1: introduction - Defence Economics - an overview demand, arms races and alliances - the demand for military expenditure, arms races, alliances impacts of military expenditure -growth, development and military expenditure. Volume 2: military production function - military personnel procurement - demand for equipment. Volume 3: supply of equipment - Defence industrial base, learning curves, costs, pricing and profits, industrial policies, arms trade disarmament, conversion, peace and public policy non-conventional conflicts - terrorism, insurrections and revolutions.
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the future of nato a Defence Economics perspective
Economic Affairs, 1999Co-Authors: Keith HartleyAbstract:This paper analyses the future direction of NATO and suggests some of the possible problems it will face. Most notably, the questions of how to share the burden of the cost of NATO action among its members and what is the optimal size of the organisation in the future, are addressed. One possible way forward is the creation of a NATO free trade area.
Robert Callum - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the transformation and future prospects of europe s Defence industry
International Affairs, 2002Co-Authors: Terrence R. Guay, Robert CallumAbstract:Europe’s Defence industry has evolved by transforming itself from a collection of nationally oriented firms to one dominated by two giants. Stimuli external and internal to the European Union (EU) are responsible for this development. After describing the evolution of this sector since the end of the Cold War, the authors present four factors that played key roles: developments within the United States’ Defence industry; the impact of technology and Defence Economics; general economic restructuring within the EU together with nascent Defence industrial policy; and progress towards the creation of a European Security and Defence Policy. While the evolution required all four factors, the EU played a critical and under–appreciated economic and political role in the changes that have transformed the European Defence industry, and is now positioned to continue to shape this process.
John Treddenick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Defence and Economics some issues for the post cold war world
Canadian Journal of Economics, 1996Co-Authors: John TreddenickAbstract:With the end of the Cold War, a peace of sorts has been achieved. Nations are reducing military expenditures, armies are being down-sized, and Defence industries are closing or converting to civilian production. Yet, it is a strange peace, one which has substantially reduced the danger of global warfare, but one which has seemingly multiplied the opportunities for local conflicts, and conflicts of a particularly mindless and bloody variety. Somehow that new world order that looked so promising only a few years ago, the one that so tantalizingly held out the prospect of collective security arrangements in which declining military expenditures would be completely consistent with real global peace, never quite materialized. Economists could make a significant contribution to peace by helping us to understand why this should have been the case. They should be able to tell us whether the changed economic circumstances of the post-Cold War era make the eventual achievement of a viable collective security regime more or less likely. As a small step in that direction, this paper examines how the end of the Cold War is shaping the way in which nations allocate resources to military purposes. It focuses on two aspects of this issue: first, on the general problem of the level and distribution of military budgets, and second, on the problem of armaments production and trade. Since Adam Smith first broached the subject, Defence Economics has been concerned with the appropriate level and allocation of Defence expenditures to achieve an efficient production of Defence capability. In resolving both issues, the Cold War proved useful. For one thing, it provided a programme for telling friends from enemies. In so doing it offered an appropriate frame of reference for making budgetary decisions. It also provided a powerful rationale for sacrificing domestic needs to international security. Perhaps more importantly, it created a situation where foreign policy could be easily distinguished from domestic policy. Under such circumstances, especially
Gabriela Pohl - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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terrorism identity psychology and Defence Economics
Social Science Research Network, 2011Co-Authors: Peter J Phillips, Gabriela PohlAbstract:That a dividing line has been drawn between Economics and psychology is evident from a review of the most recent terrorism studies literature. The division is centred on the motivations of terrorism and the payoffs to terrorism. Psychology has generally been interested in motivations. Economics has generally been interested in payoffs. The objective of this paper is to show, by examining the psychologically important factor of 'identity', that it is very difficult to draw a clear dividing line between motivations and payoffs. Identity and self image are factors that motivate individuals to become terrorists but the gains and losses in identity and self image that result from engagement in terrorism are payoffs to terrorism. Factors that are important to the study of terrorism must sometimes be understood as both motivations and payoffs. The analysis of these factors requires the analytical frameworks of both economic science and psychology.
Terrence R. Guay - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the transformation and future prospects of europe s Defence industry
International Affairs, 2002Co-Authors: Terrence R. Guay, Robert CallumAbstract:Europe’s Defence industry has evolved by transforming itself from a collection of nationally oriented firms to one dominated by two giants. Stimuli external and internal to the European Union (EU) are responsible for this development. After describing the evolution of this sector since the end of the Cold War, the authors present four factors that played key roles: developments within the United States’ Defence industry; the impact of technology and Defence Economics; general economic restructuring within the EU together with nascent Defence industrial policy; and progress towards the creation of a European Security and Defence Policy. While the evolution required all four factors, the EU played a critical and under–appreciated economic and political role in the changes that have transformed the European Defence industry, and is now positioned to continue to shape this process.
