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This book offers a comprehensive overview of UK defence exports, as
an example of the international trade in defence capabilities. The
work explores the subject of defence exports from the UK through
various lenses, ranging from ethics, geopolitics, and national
resilience to technology transfer, industrial partnering and
military cooperation. By unveiling a multi-perspective model of
defence exports, the book reveals the arms trade to be possessed of
many meanings and understandings. At a moment in world history when
the threat of state-on-state conflict has re-emerged, wedded to
rapid technological changes in the practice of warfare, it is time
to reassess the dynamics of the trade in arms through the
experiences of the UK – a case study of defence exports from a
mature democracy with a well-established military and defence
industrial sector. Building upon extensive applied research across
the UK defence environment, the work positions defence exports at
the centre of a cat’s cradle of multiple drivers and
understandings, from the geopolitical to the commercial.
Traditional and refreshed ethical arguments relating to the arms
trade in the 21st century are also presented and explored which,
together, reshape our knowledge and consideration of the roles of
defence exports and the challenges that reside in its practice.
With extensive access to ministers, policymakers, industrialists,
campaigners and military commanders, the author is well-placed to
deliver an appreciation of these multiple perspectives and
explanations of defence exports, which are presented in an
accessible manner for readers. This book will be of much interest
to students of defence and security studies, British politics and
International Relations, as well as policymakers.
This book analyses UK defence as a complex, interdependent
public-private enterprise covering politics, management, society,
and technology, as well as the military. Building upon wide-ranging
applied research, with extensive access to ministers, policy
makers, senior military commanders, and industrialists, the book
characterises British defence as a phenomenon that has endured
extensive transformation this century. Looking at the subject
afresh as a complex, extended enterprise involving politics,
alliances, businesses, skills, economics, military practices, and
citizens, the authors profoundly reshape our understanding of
'defence' and how it is to be commissioned and delivered in a world
dominated by geopolitical risks and uncertainties. The book makes
the case that this new understanding of defence must inevitably
lead to new policies and processes to ensure its health and
vitality. This book will be of much interest to students of defence
studies, British politics, and military and strategic studies, as
well as policy makers and practitioners.
The relationship between government and the businesses that
contribute towards the defence and security of the state is a
critical one; it often underscores a modern state's foreign policy
and sense of place in the world. Yet, despite its clear importance,
this subject is underexplored and rarely analysed in a rigorous
manner. As a consequence, government defence industrial policies,
if they exist at all, often seem somewhat contrived, ill-considered
and contradictory. The Defence Industrial Triptych systematically
analyses the components and drivers of the relationships that bind
a government to its defence industrial base by examining three
major case studies: the UK, US and Germany, who between them
account for over three quarters of NATO defence spending. The
features of their defence industrial relationships -whether common
or unique - provide vital lessons for policy-makers, industrialists
and the taxpayer. As defence cuts bite across NATO and as the UK
approaches the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review, the
relationships this Whitehall Paper considers are more important
than ever.
The relationship between government and the businesses that
contribute towards the defence and security of the state is a
critical one; it often underscores a modern state's foreign policy
and sense of place in the world. Yet, despite its clear importance,
this subject is underexplored and rarely analysed in a rigorous
manner. As a consequence, government defence industrial policies,
if they exist at all, often seem somewhat contrived, ill-considered
and contradictory. The Defence Industrial Triptych systematically
analyses the components and drivers of the relationships that bind
a government to its defence industrial base by examining three
major case studies: the UK, US and Germany, who between them
account for over three quarters of NATO defence spending. The
features of their defence industrial relationships -whether common
or unique - provide vital lessons for policy-makers, industrialists
and the taxpayer. As defence cuts bite across NATO and as the UK
approaches the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review, the
relationships this Whitehall Paper considers are more important
than ever.
This book analyses UK defence as a complex, interdependent
public-private enterprise covering politics, management, society,
and technology, as well as the military. Building upon wide-ranging
applied research, with extensive access to ministers, policy
makers, senior military commanders, and industrialists, the book
characterises British defence as a phenomenon that has endured
extensive transformation this century. Looking at the subject
afresh as a complex, extended enterprise involving politics,
alliances, businesses, skills, economics, military practices, and
citizens, the authors profoundly reshape our understanding of
'defence' and how it is to be commissioned and delivered in a world
dominated by geopolitical risks and uncertainties. The book makes
the case that this new understanding of defence must inevitably
lead to new policies and processes to ensure its health and
vitality. This book will be of much interest to students of defence
studies, British politics, and military and strategic studies, as
well as policy makers and practitioners.
The management consulting industry is a leading component of the
world's knowledge economy permeating every segment of industry,
commerce and government service. A multi-billion dollar phenomenon,
it has yielded its own body of knowledge and set of practices.
Exponents do make a lot of money for the consulting businesses they
serve. What is not always understood, or transparent, is the value
clients receive. This book seeks to make good that deficiency in
our perception of the profession. Leaning on his deep and
wide-ranging experience, Dr John Louth seeks to lift the lid on the
management consulting profession in a critically reflective and
accessible manner. With vignettes and examples drawn from his own
experience and practice, he dissects the rational explanations
usually provided by practitioners. He calls for restraint and
self-awareness from both client and consultant, and advocates the
reform of.15 a profession that seems increasingly powerful and
unregulated. Dr Louth explores the management consulting profession
on its own terrain, through its own language and discourses. He
disentangles the management consultant's notions of "strategy,"
"risk management," "change" and "project management" so that these
become meaningful to the layperson. Given the complexity that
dominates the global geopolitical system and international economy,
he asks how management consulting diagnoses can be effective in an
uncertain and highly contingent world. With a foreword by Professor
Rebecca Boden of the University of Roehampton Business School in
London, this book is an accessible and scholarly monograph that is
essential reading for those seeking to understand management
consultancy and its role in the modern world.
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