Le secteur de la défense britannique. La facture de Milady

Ronald Smith and Jacques Fontanel ()
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble

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Abstract: The study of the British defence sector is today particularly difficult, because there is no longer a defence industrial policy committed by the conservative government. The arms industry depends on the world military market, the competitiveness of producers, the level of national technology and the quality of research and development. The panorama is not very engaging, because the free play of the market is exercised, thus calling into question the R&D effort of the national economy. The result is a restructuring of the industry. Strategic priorities are reconsidered with the events in Eastern Europe and the evolution of the Middle East conflict. The United Kingdom admits competition with foreign arms firms, which raises the question of the independence of national defence and its role in a NATO to be redefined. If the government is nationalist in political terms, it is very internationalist in the commercial field. It is unlikely to engage in a national arms industrial policy.

Keywords: Industrial policy; arms industry; research and development; national defence; Politique industrielle; industrie d’armement; recherche-développement; défense nationale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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Published in Economie et Humanisme, 1991, 316 (janvier-mars)

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