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- catalog abstract ""Despite professed goals of self-sufficiency, most so-called second-tier arms producers - i.e., the smaller industrialised countries and the major arms producers in the developing world - have largely failed to eliminate or even substantially reduce their dependencies on foreign technologies, due to continued deficiencies and weaknesses in these countries' R & D and manufacturing bases. Recent industrial readjustment strategies undertaken by many of these second-tier arms-producing countries point to their increasingly subordinate role in a more globalised and interdependent worldwide 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 second-tier arms producers, it is likely that it will entail the abandonment of their original objectives of self-sufficiency."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12841477.
- catalog contributor b12841478.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Despite professed goals of self-sufficiency, most so-called second-tier arms producers - i.e., the smaller industrialised countries and the major arms producers in the developing world - have largely failed to eliminate or even substantially reduce their dependencies on foreign technologies, due to continued deficiencies and weaknesses in these countries' R & D and manufacturing bases. Recent industrial readjustment strategies undertaken by many of these second-tier arms-producing countries point to their increasingly subordinate role in a more globalised and interdependent worldwide 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 second-tier arms producers, it is likely that it will entail the abandonment of their original objectives of self-sufficiency."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "The rise and fall of second-tier arms producers -- Transition and readjustment in second-tier defence industries : five case studies -- Towards a brave new arms industry? -- Implications and challenges ahead.".
- catalog extent "102 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0198528353".
- catalog isPartOf "Adelphi paper, 0567-932X ; 356".
- catalog isPartOf "Adelphi papers ; no. 356.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "338.476234 21".
- catalog subject "Arms control.".
- catalog subject "HD9743.A2 B542 2003".
- catalog subject "Weapons industry.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The rise and fall of second-tier arms producers -- Transition and readjustment in second-tier defence industries : five case studies -- Towards a brave new arms industry? -- Implications and challenges ahead.".
- catalog title "Towards a brave new arms industry? : / Richard A. Bitzinger.".
- catalog type "text".