Public Policy and the Creation of a European Arms Market

François Heisbourg

Chapter 3 in The European Armaments Market and Procurement Cooperation, 1988, pp 60-88 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract For a variety of reasons, the European countries have considered joint procurement of military equipment and European armaments cooperation as desirable but usually secondary aims since the mid-1950s. The military usefulness of interoperable or standardised materiel, the political mileage derived from common projects like Franco-German programmes and the consequences of economies of scale, are some of the reasons which have always been, and no doubt will continue to be, invoked in favour of a European (or Atlantic) dimension of the arms market.

Keywords: Defence Industry; Weapon System; Competitive Bidding; European Firm; Defence Spending (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10024-8_3

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