Defence Offsets and the Global Arms Trade

Explaining Cross-National Variations
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-50117-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Defence Studies

This book offers the first comprehensive study of defence offsets and its economic, security, political and theoretical implications.

Originating in the second half of the 19th century, defence offsets - additional economic, industrial and technological benefits to states for buying foreign weapons - have since been a key feature of the global arms trade and defence industry. And yet, offsets are an under-researched and under-theorised phenomenon. This book fills this gap in the literature by offering the first general theory of defence offsets, as well as the first systematic analysis of the offset phenomenon. By building on the insights of scholars of defence economics and drawing from the International Relations liberal paradigm, as well as reviving and adapting Robert Putnam’s two-level game framework, the book proposes a liberal-rationalist theory of defence offsets. It then proves the worth of such a theory through Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of fifty-four fighter aircraft transfers from 1992 to 2021 inclusive, and three in-depth case studies addressing offsets negotiated and agreed to as part of fighter aircraft competitions in Brazil, India, and South Korea.

This book will be of interest to students of defence studies, defence economics, security studies and international relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anicetti, Jonata

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Everything You Need to Know About Defence Offsets: Ontology, History, Politics, and Trends 2. Toward a Liberal-Rationalist Theory of Defence Offsets  3. Performing QCA Analysis on 54 FGA Transfers 4. Brazil’s FX(2) Fighter Aircraft Competition 5. India’s MMRCA Tender: The ‘Mother of All Defence Deals’ 6. South Korea’s F-X3 Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Jonata Anicetti is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Security Studies, Metropolitan University Prague (MUP), and he has a PhD in International Relations from the European University Institute (EUI).