Arms industry limited / edited by Herbert Wulf.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [392]-401) and index.

Australia : an emerging arms supplier? / Graeme Chesseman -- The 'third tier' countries : production of major weapons / Ian Anthony.

"Sipri" -- T.p.

1. Arms industry limited: the turning-point in the 1990s / Herbert Wulf. I. The changed environment. II. Diverse regional developments. III. Employment in the arms industry. IV. Effects on companies -- 2. The United States: trends in defence procurement and research and development programmes / Gordon Adams and Steven M. Kosiak. II. The history of acquisition funding. III. Modernization in the 1980s. IV. Acquisition in the 1990s. V. Future defence funding prospects and potential problems -- 3. The United States: unmanaged change in the defence industry / Judith Reppy. II. The historical context. III. Defence industry employment. IV. The current arms market structure. V. Government policy responses -- 4. The United States: arms exports and implications for arms production / Ian Anthony. II. Measuring the US share of the global arms trade. III. The economic dimension of US arms sales. IV. Export dependence in the US arms industry.

V. The impact of domestic arms procurement on arms exports. VI. Political aspects of US arms transfer policy -- 5. The Soviet Union and the successor republics: defence industries coming to terms with disunion / Julian Cooper. I. The historical background. II. The Russian Federation. III. Ukraine. IV. Belarus. V. Moldova. VI. Kazakhstan. VII. Georgia. VIII. Armenia. IX. Azerbaijan. X. Uzbekistan. XI. Kyrgyzstan. XII. Tajikistan. XIII. Turkmenistan. XIV. The Baltic republics -- 6. The Soviet Union: arms control and conversion - plan and reality / Alexei Izyumov. II. The Gorbachev plan for conversion and its results. III. Political struggle over the direction of conversion. IV. Conversion dilemmas after the breakup of the Soviet Union -- 7. The Soviet Union and the successor republics: arms exports and the struggle with the heritage of the military-industrial complex / Herbert Wulf. II. The historical context: a short history of Soviet arms trade. III. Arms exports in recent years.

IV. What next: restraint or expansion? -- Appendix 7A. Soviet arms exports, 1980-80 / Herbert Wulf -- 8. Western Europe: facing over-capacities / Herbert Wulf. II. Country characteristics. III. Producers and industrial sectors. IV. Perspectives -- 9. Western Europe: internationalization of the arms industry / Elisabeth Skons. II. Forms of internationalization. III. General trends in the internationalization of industrial activities. IV. Internationalization by arms industry sector -- 10. The European Community: from the EC to the European Union / Agnes Courades Allebeck. II. EC competition policy. III. Towards an industrial policy for the armament sector: the obstacles ahead. IV. The internal market and its implications for EC internal trade in defence-related goods. V. The future EC arms transfer regime -- Appendix 10A. Excerpts from treaties relating to security policy, arms production and arms exports of the European Community / Agnes Courades Allebeck.

11. Poland: declining industry in a period of difficult economic transformation / Maciej Perczynski and Pawel Wieczorek. I. The historical background. II. The military budget. III. Arms production, the economic condition and the status of military industry. IV. Organizational and systemic foundations of the arms industry. V. Arms exports. VI. Conversion -- 12. Czechoslovakia: reductions in arms production in a time of economic and political transformation / Oldrich Cechak, Jan Selesovsky and Milan Stembera. I. The historical background. II. The present Czechoslovak arms industry. III. Conversion. IV. The Czechoslovak arms industry in the Central European region. V. The influence of a breakup of the federation on the arms industry -- 13. Turkey: the arms industry modernization programme / Gulay Gunluk-Senesen. II. Incentives for militarization. III. The context of the modernization programme. IV. The modernization programme in practice. V. The aerospace industry.

14. The People's Republic of China: arms production, industrial strategy and problems of history / John Frankenstein. I. Problems of history. II. The evolution of the military-industrial system. III. Arms production. IV. The technology acquisition process. V. Reforms. VI. Conversion of the arms industry: 'swords into plowshares'? -- 15. Japan: a latent but large supplier of dual-use technology / Masako Ikegami-Andersson. I. The historical background. II. Military expenditure. III. The Japanese arms industry. IV. US-Japanese collaboration in military technology -- 16. Australia: an emerging arms supplier? / Graeme Cheeseman. II. Establishing an indigenous defence industry. III. The defence industry and arms sales: record and dilemmas -- 17. The 'third tier' countries: production of major weapon / Ian Anthony. II. Trends in the production of major conventional weapons. III. The industrial organization of arms production. IV. Arms production as an element of arms procurement.

Annexe A. Yugoslavia: arms production before the war / Herbert Wulf -- Annexe B. Bibliography of works on arms production / Espen Gullikstad.