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Manufacturing Insecurity : The Rise and Fall of Brazil’s Military-Industrial Complex / Ken Conca.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (283 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781555876951
  • 9781685858087
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Puzzling Trajectory of Brazil's Defense Sector -- 2 The Origins of Military Industrialization -- Part 1 : The Rise -- 3 The Rise of the Modern Military-Industrial Sector -- 4 Brazil in the Global Arms Economy -- 5 The Domestic Politics of Military Industrialization -- Part 2 : The Fall -- 6 Diverging Structures and Dilemmas of Adjustment -- 7 The AM-X Tactical Fighter -- 8 The VLS Program -- 9 The Osório Battle Tank -- 10 The Nuclear Submarine Program -- Part 3: Implications -- 11 Institutional Tensions and the Failure to Adjust -- 12 Development, Security, and Military Industrialization in the Third World -- Appendix A Measuring Brazilian Military-Industrial Activity -- Appendix B Interviews -- Appendix C Acronyms -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: Examines the domestic and global forces that led to the spectacular decline of what had been the Third World’s most successful manufacturer of weapons for international sale.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781685858087

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Puzzling Trajectory of Brazil's Defense Sector -- 2 The Origins of Military Industrialization -- Part 1 : The Rise -- 3 The Rise of the Modern Military-Industrial Sector -- 4 Brazil in the Global Arms Economy -- 5 The Domestic Politics of Military Industrialization -- Part 2 : The Fall -- 6 Diverging Structures and Dilemmas of Adjustment -- 7 The AM-X Tactical Fighter -- 8 The VLS Program -- 9 The Osório Battle Tank -- 10 The Nuclear Submarine Program -- Part 3: Implications -- 11 Institutional Tensions and the Failure to Adjust -- 12 Development, Security, and Military Industrialization in the Third World -- Appendix A Measuring Brazilian Military-Industrial Activity -- Appendix B Interviews -- Appendix C Acronyms -- Index -- About the Book

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Examines the domestic and global forces that led to the spectacular decline of what had been the Third World’s most successful manufacturer of weapons for international sale.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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