POWER, INFLUENCE, AND HIERARCHY: DEFENSE INDUSTRIES IN A UNIPOLAR WORLD

Stephanie Neuman

Defence and Peace Economics, 2010, vol. 21, issue 1, 105-134

Abstract: The global defense-industrial sector reflects the hierarchy of power in the post-Cold War world. As in the larger international system, the United States plays the dominant role in the defense sector as well. It is a comparative advantage often used by US policymakers to influence the foreign policy behavior of other states. Curiously, the radical concentration of the world's defense industrial sector, as described here, has received relatively little scrutiny from either academia or the media, even though it not only reflects the international order but provides the United States with considerable leverage in it.

Keywords: International Relations; Defense industries; Arms industries; Power; Influence; Unipolar; Globalization; Arms transfers; Arms exports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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