Security, Strategy, and the Global Economics of Defence
David G Haglund author Neil Macfarlane author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Queen's University
Published:1st Oct '99
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As the recent fighting in Serbia illustrates, the technology of modern warfare is in constant evolution, with implications spanning a wide range of public policy areas
Discusses developments in policy of procurement and export of arms and enhancement of quality of bilateral defense trade. This book features contributions from a broad range of policy analysts in Canada and the United Kingdom whose primary concern is to identify and analyze the major challenges that Ottawa and London will be facing.Security, Strategy, and the Global Economics of Defence Production features contributions from a broad range of policy analysts and practitioners in Canada and the United Kingdom whose primary concern is to identify and analyse the major challenges that Ottawa and London will be facing in the coming decade. Among the issues and challenges considered are understanding the changing nature of threat and risk to security interests, devising appropriate means of harnessing and responding to technological change in warfare, and assessing the relative merits of regional defence-industrial groupings as opposed to trans-Atlantic arrangements. The contributors also discuss developments in policy respecting the procurement and export of arms as well as the enhancement of the quality of bilateral defence cooperation and trade.
ISBN: 9780889118751
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275 pages