1st Edition
Defence Industries in the 21st Century A Comparative Analysis
Introduction
Çağlar Kurç, Richard A. Bitzinger and Stephanie G. Neuman
1. The value of domestic arms industries: security of supply or military adaptation?
Marc R. DeVore
2. Israel’s defence industries – an overview
Uzi Rubin
3. Between defense autarky and dependency: the dynamics of Turkish defense industrialization
Çağlar Kurç
4. Turkish defense industry facing major challenges
Arda Mevlutoglu
5. The Arab Gulf defense pivot: Defense industrial policy in a changing geostrategic context
Heiko Borchert
6. Egypt’s defense industry: dependency, civilian production, and attempts at autonomy
Zeinab Abul-Magd
7. Asian arms industries and impact on military capabilities
Richard A. Bitzinger
8. State vs. market in India: How (not) to integrate foreign contractors in the domestic defense-industrial sector
Moritz Weiss
9. Does being part of a semi-regionalized European defense economy change state behavior in armaments policy decision-making?
Jocelyn Mawdsley
10. Defense industrialization in small countries: Policies in Czechia and Slovakia
Martin Chovancik
11. Brazil’s defense industry: Challenges and opportunities
Raul Gouvea
12. Defense industrialization in Latin America
Patrice M. Franko and Monica Herz
13. The puzzle: Multi-vector foreign policy and defense industrialization in Central Asia
Çağlar Kurç
Conclusion
Çağlar Kurç, Richard A. Bitzinger and Stephanie G. Neuman
Biography
Çağlar Kurç is an Adjunct Lecturer at Department of International Relations at I.D. Bilkent University. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the MIT Security Studies Program, and visiting post-doctoral scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at the Columbia University. His work focuses on defense industrialization in the emerging powers.
Richard A. Bitzinger is a Visiting Senior Fellow with the Military Transformations Program at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, where his work focuses on security and defense issues relating to the Asia-Pacific region, including military modernization and force transformation, regional defense industries and local armaments production, and weapons proliferation.
Stephanie G. Neuman is the Director of the Comparative Defense Studies Program and a Senior Research Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. Neuman has participated in study groups on the defense industry and arms control for both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
