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Arms Industry Limited (Hardcover)
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Arms Industry Limited (Hardcover)
Series: SIPRI Monographs
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Arms Industry Limited is an empirical account of the size and
structure of the world arms industry with special case studies of
the United States, the former Soviet Union, Canada, countries in
both Western and Central Europe, and countries in the less
developed world and in the Asia-Pacific region. The book describes
the various strategies which arms producing companies have adopted
in order to meet the challenges and commitments of the post-cold
war world. Governments are in the process of restructuring national
armed forces and revising military equipment procurement plans.
Military budgets are tighter in many parts of the world, affecting
national arms production and arms exports. The most common company
strategies are to reduce the size of the firm and lay off
employees, to mothball production facilities, to `transnationalize'
firms, and to convert firms to non-military production. While there
are counter-pressures to a decrease in the production and export of
arms, in the future companies will probably have to reduce their
production capacities and number of employees even further. The
strong international pressure on governments to regulate arms
exports, particularly since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, is also
examined by the international group of experts who have contributed
the case studies in the volume.
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