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The Major Western Defence Industries

In: Disarming Military Industries

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  • Peter Southwood

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The defence industries1 are the focus of conversion efforts. Yet until comparatively recently very little by way of in-depth research had been done into the economic parameters of those industries. A great deal of theorising about conversion had been undertaken on the basis of a very limited data base. The publication of The Structure of the Defense Industry: An International Survey, edited by Nicole Ball and Milton Leitenberg (1983), represented therefore an important step forward in that it provided a comparative assessment of the economic parameters of the defence industries of several countries, including all the major Western industrialised states except the United Kingdom. (The latter was confined to a statistical appendix.)2 As the authors of this study themselves claimed: Any realistic assessment of the effects of reductions in defence industries — that is, the conversion of military industries to civilian uses — must take as its starting point the role played by these industries in present-day national economies.3

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  • Peter Southwood, 1991. "The Major Western Defence Industries," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Disarming Military Industries, chapter 5, pages 56-78, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11527-3_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11527-3_5
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