Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy

India, Iraq and Israel
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7146-8582-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

Reihe: Cass Military Studies

Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.

Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international relations, and recent historical studies of international technology and arms transfers. Looking at Israel, Iraq and India, the three most powerful regional powers in the Cold War era, he presesnts an expert analysis of the three-sided phenomena of the regional hegemony, the regional competitor and the small over-achiever.

This new book breaks away from existing literature on military industries in the developing world, which has focused on their economic and development costs and benefits. These past studies have used primitive methodologies that focus on the production of complete weapons systems - a misleading gauge in a world of growing international defense cooperation. They have also ignored empirical evidence of the impact of local military industrial production on Cold War regional conflict, and of the defence planning and concerns that drove development of indigenous military industries in key regional powers. This new text delivers an incisive new perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoyt, Timothy D.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baugewerbe, Bauplanung, Baubetrieb
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Bauindustrie, Baugewerbe
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Military Industry in the Developing World 2. India: The Regional Hegemon 3. Israel: Regional Over-Achiever 4. Iraq: Regional Contender 5. Regional Powers, Security, and Arms Production: Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy Hoyt is Professor of Strategy and Policy for the US Naval War College and has written extensively on technology and security in the developing world.