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  title info:
    title: Defense Conversion Strategies
  title info:
    title: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, July 2-14, 1995
  name:
    name part: Dundervill, Robert F.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Gerity, Peter F.
  name:
    name part: Hyder, A. K. (Anthony K.)
  name:
    name part: Luessen, Lawrence H.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 626 pages)
  abstract: The world situation has witnessed dramatic changes in the recent past and defense-related science and technology are coming under increasing pressure to demonstrate their ability to contribute added value to national and international economies. But defense conversion is complicated by the absence of tested principles and there is no formal training to facilitate the conversion process. As a result, such factors as long-term implications for defense together with a broad range of issues related to economic, political and social questions are not being adequately addressed. Governments and industries are searching for optimum strategies to guide the defense conversion process without benefit of either historical precedents as models or a complete understanding of the process itself. The present book identifies and studies the elements of successful defense conversion strategies through a systematic analysis of the factors influencing them and the common features of specific national efforts. The book reflects a combination of theory and practical experience. International strategies are explored that stimulate the conversion of defense technologies to industrial capacity, global economic growth and stability, the preservation and enhancement of defense technology options, and the ability to capitalize on unique economic, political and social opportunities afforded by defense technology conversion. The nations of the former Soviet Union present a particular problem. In Russia, for instance, from 1990 to 1993 there was a 47% decline in industrial production and a 38% decrease in GNP. This clearly needs immediate action, but there are difficulties with the conversion processes, technology transfer and implementation of dual-use strategies. While many of these issues are generic to the process, there are national and cultural difficulties. At a time of unprecedented global political and economic instability, the collective knowledge and experience of NATO and its Coopera…
  note: edited by Robert F. Dundervill, Peter F. Gerity, Anthony K. Hyder, Lawrence H. Luessen.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: International economic relations
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: International economic relations
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  classification: JA1-92
  classification: 320
  related item:
    title info:
      title: NATO ASI Series, Series 1: Disarmament Technologies ; 9
  identifier: 9789401712132 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401712131 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789048147823
  identifier: 9048147824
  identifier: 9401712131
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  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130220
    record change date: 20260421170814.3
    record identifier: in00003557033
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng