L'industrie d'armement dans le processus de globalisation

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: In a situation of global crisis and voluntary or involuntary disarmament efforts, the arms industry is gradually becoming part of the globalisation process. Export and trade compensation efforts are developing, as well as attempts at regional cooperation. In this sector, the dominance of the United States is growing, with a powerful military R&D open to dual technologies. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, economic globalisation developed, leading to a crisis of the public economy and therefore of the national arms industries. Indeed, globalisation often appears as a factor of Americanisation with the effective support of a dominant arms industry. The rise of the information economy seems likely to change both the weapons themselves and their use permanently, towards less direct lethality and more precision in action in theatres of operation and the ability to disrupt opposing military and economic defences.

Keywords: Arms industries; economic globalisation; R&D; military spending; dual technologies; information industry; 'Americanisation'; Industries d’armement; globalisation économique; dépenses militaires; technologies duales; industrie de l’information; « américanisation’. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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Published in Stratégie & Armement. Etats et firmes d'armement en Europe, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Cahiers d'Etudes Stratégiques. 22, 1998

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