Making Peace Possible
The Promise of Economic Conversion
Published on 28. June 2014
328 pages
978-1-4832-9928-0 (ISBN)
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In Making Peace Possible, the editors have presented a range of papers which focus on the theory and practice of economic conversion of military-oriented industry to civilian use. The book brings together a wealth of information from academic research and from case studies undertaken by individual countries and by the United Nations. Covering such diverse topics as the relationship between the level of armament expenditure in the industrialized countries and economic aid to less developed countries, the economic impact of ever-increasing expenditure on arms, and the theory and practical experience of economic conversion projects in the US and Scandinavia, Making Peace Possible shows that economic conversion from military to civilian use can help form the basis for a more peaceful and economically stable world.
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Preface. Conversion: the idea whose time has come, I Thorsson. Economic Conversion for Disarmament and Development. Economic conversion: the critical link, L J Dumas. International experience of conversion, N Ball. Economic conversion as a set of organising ideas, L R Peattie. Conversion to a peaceful economy: criteria, objectives, and constituencies, M G Renner. Swords into ploughshares: the quest for peace and human development, M Thee. Economic Conversion in the United States. Arms exports: the stop-gap alternative to Pentagon contracts?, P Quigley. Swords and sheepskins: militarisation of higher education in the United States and prospects of its conversion, R Krinsky. Facing the second generation of the nuclear weapons complex: renewal of the nuclear production base or economic conversion?, G Bischak. Converting the military economy through the local state: local conversion prospects in Massachusetts, J M Feldman. Law for economic conversion: necessity and characteristics, S Melman. Armaments and the Economy. Arms conversion and the defence industry in the United Kingdom: a review of recent developments, T Woodhouse, S Schofield & P Southwood. High technology programmes: for the military or for the economy?, M Pianta. Scandinavian Studies. Conversion from military to civil production in Sweden, I Thorsson. Conversion: global, national and local effects. A case study of Norway, N P Gleditsch, O Bjerkholt & A Cappelen. Conclusion. The promise of economic conversion, L J Dumas. Appendix. United Nations Study on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development. About the contributors. Index.
