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Overview"This book addresses the economic and technological dilemmas and likely future paths facing the second-tier arms-producing states (i.e. the smaller industrialized countries and the major arms producers in the developing world) as they enter the 21st century. The central argument is that, despite professed goals of self-sufficiency, most second-tier arms producers have largely failed to eliminate or even substantially reduce their subordination to foreign suppliers, due to continued deficiencies and weaknesses in these countries' defence technology and production bases. As a result, the capabilities for independent arms production among most second-tier arms producers have largely leveled off at a ""mid-tech"" level. More importantly, given the reduced resources available in the post-Cold War era, even this level of arms production capability is increasingly unsustainable. The author then examines the recent readjustment responses on the part of several secondary suppliers and assesses their significance and their prospects for success. These readjustment strategies include: (1) rationalizing their defence industrial bases, via workforce downsizing, plant closures, and company mergers and acquisitions; (2) exiting from certain kinds of defence work; (3) pursuing defence conversion or commercial diversification; (4) leveraging dual-use technologies; and (5) globalizing their defence industries via increased exports or internationalizing production. The author concludes that second-tier arms producers are likely to play a subordinate but more integrated role in an increasingly globalized and interdependent defence industry. Structurally, such a system could resemble a huge ""hub and spoke"" model, comprising a few large first-tier firms operating at the centre - and providing the process of armaments production with its critical design, development, and systems integration inputs - with lines of outsourced production of niche systems or low-tech items extending out to second-tier states on the periphery. Although such a global ""division of labour"" in arms production will probably bring new economic and technological benefits to many secondary states, it will likely entail the abandonment of their original objectives of self-sufficiency." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard BitzingerPublisher: Thomson West Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Volume: No.356 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.190kg ISBN: 9780198528357ISBN 10: 0198528353 Pages: 104 Publication Date: 08 March 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; THE LADDER OF PRODUCTION AND THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN SECOND-TIER DEFENCE INDUSTRIALISATION; Reality Sets In: The Second-Tier Arms Producers in the Post-Cold War Era; Facing Up to the Learning Curve; BRAZIL: PAINFUL EXIT, SUCCESSFUL NICHE PRODUCER; South Africa: Importing to Preserve Domestic Arms Industries; South Korea: Trying to Grow out of its Problems; Sweden: Globalising for Survival; Taiwan: Dazed and Confused; PATTERNS OF READJUSTMENT; The Emerging 'Hub-and Spoke' of Global Arms Production; CONCLUSION: IMPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES AHEAD; LADDER OF PRODUCTION MODELS FOR INDIGENOUS ARMS PRODUCTION; Arms Exports for Selected Second-Tier Arms-Producing Countries; Workforce Reductions in Selected Second-Tier Arms-Producing Countries; Globalisation Activities in Selected Second-Tier Arms-Producing CountriesReviewsAuthor InformationAuthored by Bitzinger, Richard Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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