An Analysis of the Feasibility of Revitalizing the Brazilian Defense Industry

Renato Peixoto Dagnino and Luiz Alberto N. Campos Filho
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Renato Peixoto Dagnino: State University of Campinas
Luiz Alberto N. Campos Filho: Ibmec Business School - RJ

Brazilian Business Review, 2007, vol. 4, issue 3, 178-194

Abstract: Since 2003, the Brazilian government and certain sectors of Brazilian society have been debating the revitalization of the Brazilian defense industry (BDI). This article analyses some of the arguments in these debates (the rights of nations and duties of governments as regards defense, the possibility of coercive action by the great arms exporters, evidence that the defense industry has always run a deficit, and the export needs the country would have if it decided to revitalize its defense industry) and analyzes other questions that merit scrutiny (the causes of the crisis in the BDI that occurred in the 1980s, the causes of low internal demand, the economic and technological impact of the BDI). This is done by comparing these arguments and exploring these questions based on an analysis of documents. In this way, we aim to provide reliable information from Brazil and elsewhere to contribute to this debate.

Keywords: revitalization; defense industry; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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