Military-Industrial Complex

As the study of the interface between economics, defense and politics proliferates, this collective volume sets out to identify the nature of political economy of defense inquiry, beyond the traditional two-dimensional analyses of defense economics and defense politics. Through analytical and empirical investigations, contributors intend to illustrate the broad, encompassing scope of political economy of defense research and contribute to the development of a research agenda.

The 1970s and 1980s witnessed growing concern in the United States regarding the relative decline of the American economy and, for defense planners, the military's growing dependence on foreign production of weapons' parts and subcomponents--the "guts" of many critical weapons systems. The period also witnessed growing interest in industrial policy as a tool for promoting U.S. international competitiveness, defense sectors proving to be particularly attractive candidates for government economic intervention. This study traces the evolution of defense dependence and the U.S. government's response to this dilemma by examining policy ideas and experiments in four defense industries--machine tools, semiconductor manufacturing, ball bearings, and high-definition television technologies--explaining successes and failures, and reviewing prospects for expansion.

This is the first encyclopedia that critically surveys the ethics of warmaking from a variety of perspectives. Noted experts raise basic questions about what is "just" in war, describe the views of historic and contemporary thinkers on ethical matters, survey practices at different periods, and discuss key issues. The over 250 entries arranged in alphabetical order cover efforts to curb the havoc of war from medieval to modern times, from accidental war to Zagreb Resolution, different religious perspectives, genocide, UN peacekeeping, and much more. Sources for further reading accompany the entries, and internal cross-references and an index make this major reference easily accessible for students and teachers in military, peace, and world affairs studies.

With President Clinton's current push for increased military spending, William Greider's message is all the more urgent: Americans must grasp the purpose and determine the future of our gargantuan military machine. With the collapse of Communism, do we really need this vast array of military power in fighting readiness? Why? Can we afford it? Called a "smart and provocative critique of a system that is badly in need of reform" (Washington Post Book World) Fortress America explores how and why America has avoided coming to terms with the end of the Cold War era -- and the troubling consequences for our fighting forces and our country.

The 1990s saw worldwide military spending plummet almost 40 per cent. This book tracks the progress of 12 countries on five continents in moving resources from defence to civilian activity in the 1990s. It is based on intensive field research and includes writing from international contributors.

The Army has a growing need to collaborate and partner with industry. When we look at the nexus between wgat is available to the Army in terms of the various innovations occurring in industry and what the Army can actually do to exploit those innovations, three approached emerge as proming

The Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), unleashed by the integration of information technologies into weapons systems, military units, and operations is a phenomenon with impacts that have been felt well beyond the Gulf in 1991 or the Balkans in 1999. Technological developments lie at the center of these changes; however, the RMA is more than technology. It includes the consequences of technological changes for defense and security. This study provides an assessment of the RMA that goes beyond a description of new defense-related technologies and deals with deeper, more fundamental issues.

The author masterfully blends intellectual, economic, and military history into a fascinating discussion of a great moral question for generations of Americans: Can some individuals rightly profit during wartime while other sacrifice their lives to protect the nation?

In 1989 the Cold War ended, but America's Cold War economy did not end with it. Accordino examines how economic interests and powerful political forces in the federal government and in communities have kept the country from converting to a peacetime economy, and he identifies groups and interests that are working to make a peace economy possible in the United States.