Post-Cold War Trends in the European Defence Industry: Implications for Transatlantic Industrial Relations

Meijer, Hugo

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“…Studies and analyses of European defence industry tend to focus on major arms producing companies and their markets (e.g., Meijer, 2010;Hartley, 2010). This means that small states have largely escaped closer scrutiny.…”

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Defence industries in small European states: Key contemporary challenges and opportunities

Ploom¹,

Kalvet²,

Tiits³

2022

Journal of International Studies

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This study addresses the challenges and opportunities that small European states face when weighing their defence industrial policy options. The article builds on a technology–based small state industry governance model by adding a defence industry–specific layer. This model is used to analyse how defence industries of small states could contribute to the European Union common defence industrial policy, and how the latter could likewise be beneficial to small member states. The paper discusses defence industrial policy challenges and opportunities both from the wider European Union and small state perspective. Global and regional geopolitical trends are explored among other specific topics, as are aspects of regional and domestic governance like the market structure, procurement, and R&D. The article concludes that small European states could both win and lose with the establishment of a common defence market, depending on the market design. Ideally, it should be combined with the simultaneous creation of an EU defence industrial policy that enables smaller, and especially less developed, member states to maintain and advance their own industries, preferably participating within the value chains of defence industries of the larger countries.

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Defence industries in small European states: Key contemporary challenges and opportunities

Ploom¹,

Kalvet²,

Tiits³

2022

Journal of International Studies

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“…Moreover, there are questions on how the defense industry is stratifying the political power in the international system. In that regard, Meijer (2010) research shed some light in the attempt to distribute power among other relevant players. While the author argues the transformations of the European Union's defense industry and political initiatives in the post-Cold War era gradually erode the American preeminence, he reinforces the idea that a shift in the market power is moving towards Europe.…”

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Politics, Power, and Influence: Defense Industries in the Post-Cold War

Reis

2021

Social Sciences

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The post-Cold War era is placing the defense industry at a crossroads. If, on the one hand, it is under great pressure to guarantee warlike efforts around the world, with tight budgets and uncertain lead-times, on the other hand, it is seen as a central instrument for national sovereignty and foreign policy. The purpose of this research is to report the state-of-the-art of the existing literature and explore the most relevant research areas in order to provide the conceptual basis for further empirical research. To do so, this study uses a preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis (PRISMA), which is an adequate technique as it allows one to discover concepts, ideas, and debates about the defense industry. The results evidenced three different approaches to the defense industry—integration, autarky, and domination. In that regard, we present several case studies in which the defense industry is used as an instrument of foreign policy or national sovereignty. Future studies may focus on empirical research to validate the theoretical findings or to identify variables that lead some defense industries to seek synergies, resorting to mergers and acquisitions, while other defense companies prefer to obtain State funds.

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Readiness Through International Cooperation: Finnish Defence Industrial Strategy in Changing Operational Environment from the Mid-1990s to the Early 2020s

Roiko-Jokela,

Mangeloja

2024

Defence and Peace Economics

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Post-Cold War Trends in the European Defence Industry: Implications for Transatlantic Industrial Relations

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Defence industries in small European states: Key contemporary challenges and opportunities

Defence industries in small European states: Key contemporary challenges and opportunities

Politics, Power, and Influence: Defense Industries in the Post-Cold War

Readiness Through International Cooperation: Finnish Defence Industrial Strategy in Changing Operational Environment from the Mid-1990s to the Early 2020s

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