1st Edition

European Defence Decision-Making Dilemmas of Collaborative Arms Procurement

By Antonio Calcara Copyright 2020
176 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

This book comparatively examines the preferences of four key arms-producing states towards European joint armaments programmes. The European defence market is characterised by a mixture of inter-state competition and European cooperation, and this work assesses why countries sometimes decide to cooperate with their partners, while in other instances they refrain from doing so. In order to... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Explaining European Defence-Industrial Cooperation: A Theoretical Framework

3. Defence-Industrial Decision-Making: France, Germany, Italy and the UK

4. The NATO Helicopter for the 90s

5. The Eurofighter

6. Airbus A400M

7. Conclusions

Biography

Antonio Calcara is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium.