Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy - India, Iraq and Israel

Informationen zum Autor Timothy D. Hoyt Klappentext Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international relations, and recent historical studies of international technology and arms transfers. Looking at Israel, Iraq and India, the three most powerful regional powers in the Cold War era, he presesnts an expert analysis of the three-sided phenomena of the regional hegemony, the regional competitor and the small over-achiever.This new book breaks away from existing literature on military industries in the developing world, which has focused on their economic and development costs and benefits. These past studies have used primitive methodologies that focus on the production of complete weapons systems - a misleading gauge in a world of growing international defense cooperation. They have also ignored empirical evidence of the impact of local military industrial production on Cold War regional conflict, and of the defence planning and concerns that drove development of indigenous military industries in key regional powers. This new text delivers an incisive new perspective. Zusammenfassung The case studies in this book demonstrate that in periods of high regional threat, military-industrial programmes in each state focused on maximizing the utility of available infrastructure. The products of these policies cannot be assessed by conventional means. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Military Industry in the Developing World 2. India: The Regional Hegemon 3. Israel: Regional Over-Achiever 4. Iraq: Regional Contender 5. Regional Powers, Security, and Arms Production: Conclusions

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• Authors: Timothy Hoyt, Timothy D. Hoyt, Timothy D. (Us Naval War College Hoyt, HOYT TIMOTHY
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2006
• EAN: 9780714657141
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-5714-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cass Military Studies; Cass Military Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), HISTORY / Military / General, military history, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, Middle East, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Regional / International studies, Warfare and defence, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Regional Geography