This chapter provides a survey of research on the defense industrial base (DIB) focusing on
the advanced industrial capitalist economies. It starts by looking at the problems of definition …

This compelling book provides an up-to-date survey of the field of defense economics, the
study of defense and peace issues, with the application of economic analysis and methods …

This chapter discusses developing (non-high income) states' participation in the production
and trade of parts or whole units of major conventional weapons, their integration into a …

Countries that spend scarce resources to import arms from abroad often require arms sellers
to'reinvest'part or all of the proceeds back into the arms-importing country. These so …

This review discusses the likely size, pace, and distribution of reductions in defense
spending and the possible barriers to converting military resources to civilian purposes. It …

This chapter provides a survey of the issues and empirical studies involved in the debate
over the economic effects of military spending in developing countries. Firstly, it briefly …

Even before the end of the cold war, the study of the arms industry in developing nations
was ill-attended to. It was, and still is, more fashionable to study military expenditure and …

The Economics of Producing Defense: Illustrated by the Israeli Case begins with an
overview of the development of defense economics as a sub-discipline of the general theory …

In September 2002, an international conference on arms trade offsets and economic
development was held in Cape Town, South Africa, and subsequently an edited collection …

The literature on arms trade offsets (and offsets generally) is cluttered with a babel of terms.
These include: direct and indirect offsets; commercial and industrial countertrade; simple …