Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; 1 Background; Introduction; Variations on a Theme of Uncertainty; (i) Credible Deterrence; (ii) Super-power Stalemate; (iii) 'Out-of-Area' Tasks; NATO's Evolving Defence-Industrial Milieu; (i) Capriciousness of Competition Policy; (ii) Military-Industrial Linkages; (iii) Competition 'and' Concentration; Political Turbulence: NATO Consensus vs Intra-European Collaboration; Appropriate Level of Defence; Conclusion; 2 History; Introduction; The First Phase: European Rehabilitation; The US Position; European Policy Proposals
The Second Phase: Political and Economic Growing PainsThe Third Phase: Preparing for Europeanisation; First School of Thought: Resurrection of the WEU; Second School of Thought: The IEPG; NATO Policy; The European Community: Defence Implications of 1992; Conclusion; 3 Overview of Principles; Introduction; Imperatives for Collaboration; Cost Reduction; Efficiency Through Trade; Economies of Scale; (i) Production; (ii) Learning Effects; (iii) Research and Development; Cost Savings in Practice; The Military Imperative; Conclusion; 4 Europe's Developing Defence Industries; Introduction
Defining the DIBProblems of Dual-Use Technology; Defence-Industrial Structure; General Characteristics; Major Defence Players; Europe's Defence Industry: Engines of Growth; Cultivating Defence-Industrial Capability; Conclusion; 5 European Defence-Industrial Structure; Introduction; Primary Issues; Conflicting Conceptual Approaches; Reality: The Pre-eminence of Scale; The Trend towards Euro Defence-Industrial Concentration; Electronics; Aerospace; Aerospace and Associated Technology: Synergy and Spin-offs; Changing Market Structures; Micro-Management Anomalies; Problems with Bigness
Problems with Competitive MarketsWeaving DDI Nations into the Collaborative Framework; Defining DDI Nations; Impact of Arms Collaboration on DDI Nations; Conclusion; 6 US Attitudes; Introduction; US Collaborative Policy; The Triad of Initiatives; (i) Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs); (ii) Dual Production; (iii) Family of Weapons Concept (FOW); Increasing the Cooperative Momentum; (i) Foreign Weapons Evaluation (FWE); (ii) Cooperative R & D (CR & D); (iii) Balanced Technology Initiatives; Transatlantic Cooperation: Some Obstacles; Nationalism; Protectionism; Military 'Black Boxes'
Technological HaemorrhagingThird-Country Sales; Europeanism: 1922; Reversing down the Cooperative Channel?; Conclusion; 7 Practice; Introduction; Economics and the Demagogy of Cost-Savings; Increased Costs Through:; Delays; Compromise; Cancellation and Withdrawal; Other Considerations; Warsaw Pact Defence Market: Disentangling Fact from Fiction; (i) Logistics Equipment; (ii) Basic Armaments; (iii) Weapons Systems De-Standardisation; Conclusion; Local Defence Production; 8 Review and Prognosis; Arms Collaboration in a Changing Strategic Environment; Demand: Emerging Collaborative Opportunities
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First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
