List of selected acronyms and abbreviations
| AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science | |
| ACDA Arms Control and Disarmament Agency ( United States) | |
| ACEC Arizona Council for Economic Conversion | |
| ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations | |
| CAPUMIT Chinese Association for Peaceful Use of Military-Industrial Technology | |
| CCET Center for Cooperation with the Economies in Transition (OECD) | |
| CFE Conventional Armed Forces in Europe | |
| CIS Commonwealth of Independent States | |
| CMC Central Military Commission ( China) | |
| COSTIND Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (China) | |
| CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement ( United States Department of Energy) | |
| CTR Comprehensive Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar Program) | |
| CWC Chemical Weapons Convention | |
| DCA Defense Conversion Adjustment Program ( United States) | |
| DERA Defence Evaluation and Research Agency ( United Kingdom) | |
| DIB Defense industrial base | |
| DOD Department of Defense ( United States) | |
| DOE Department of Energy ( United States) | |
| DOL Department of Labor ( United States) | |
| EADC St. Louis' Economic Adjustment and Diversification Committee | |
| EBRD European Bank of Reconstruction and Development | |
| ECU European currency unit | |
| EDA Economic Development Administration ( United States) | |
| EU European Union | |
| FEWDI Foundation for East-West Development Initiatives | |
| FIG Financial-industrial group | |
| FY Fiscal Year | |
| GDP Gross Domestic Product | |
| GNP Gross National Product | |
| IISS International Institute for Strategic Studies | |
| IMF International Monetary Fund | |
| ISTC International Science and Technology Center ( Moscow) | |
| MIC Military-industrial complex | |
| NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization | |
| NORINCO China North Industries Group | |
| NPT Non-Proliferation Treaty | |
| OEA Office of Economic Adjustment ( United States) | |
| OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | |
| OPCW Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | |
| OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries | |
| OSCE Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe | |
| PHARE Pologne-Hongrie: Action pour la Reconversion Économique | |
| PLA People's Liberation Army ( China) | |
| R&D Research and development | |
| RMA Revolution in military affairs | |
| RMB Renmenbi (currency of the People's Republic of China) | |
| SANDF South African National Defence Force | |
| SIPRI Stockholm International Peace Research Institute | |
| SME Small and medium-sized enterprises | |
| SNDV Strategic nuclear delivery vehicle | |
| TACIS Technical Assistance for CIS Countries | |
| TRP Technology Reinvestment Program ( United States) | |
| UN United Nations | |
| UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | |
| USAID United States Agency for International Development | |
| WEU Western European Union |
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Publication information:
Book title: Conversion Survey, 1998:Global Disarmament, Defense Industry Consolidation and Conversion.
Contributors: Bonn International Center For Conversion - OrganizationName.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1998.
Page number: 18.
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