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The European Arms Industry, the European Commission and the Preparatory Action for Security Research: Business as Usual?

In: The Emergence of EU Defense Research Policy

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  • Nikolaos Karampekios

    (National Documentation Centre / National Hellenic Research Foundation)

  • Iraklis Oikonomou

    (Independent Researcher)

Abstract

The chapter studies the making of the Preparatory Action for Security Research (PASR), which is a key episode in the development of EU security research leading to the inclusion of a security theme in FP 7. Its primary aim is to provide an in-depth description and analysis of the role of the European arms industry in the setting-up of the initiative, highlighting more broadly this actor’s centrality in the translation of security goals into research and technological output. Using PASR as a case study, the chapter highlights the embeddedness of security considerations in technological, industrial, and socio-economic objectives. Moreover, it documents the dense web of interconnections that unfolded among the industry and the European Commission as a major stakeholder in EU security policy establishment and demonstrates the social nature of the development of security research and technology and the definition of European security problems and solutions. Essentially, it introduces the European arms industry as an actor in the governance of European security research and European security per se.

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  • Nikolaos Karampekios & Iraklis Oikonomou, 2018. "The European Arms Industry, the European Commission and the Preparatory Action for Security Research: Business as Usual?," Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management, in: Nikolaos Karampekios & Iraklis Oikonomou & Elias G. Carayannis (ed.), The Emergence of EU Defense Research Policy, chapter 0, pages 181-204, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:innchp:978-3-319-68807-7_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68807-7_10
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