This Working Paper on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) highlights the controversial benefits of speeding up free trade and puts the negotiations between the EU and the US in the context of the fall-out of the financial crisis. It looks at the contentious issues of public...

Resource wars are often considered as local conflicts threatening, through "spillovers" or contagion effects, to erode the benefits of globalisation for developing countries. This contribution challenges this view. Taking globalisation as the starting point of the analysis, it considers that...

The French meso-system of armament (FMSA) goes on playing a key role in the French innovation system. The paper describes the main institutions ? the procurement agency (DGA), large contractors, and technological agencies which contribute to defence innovation and production. It then addresses...

The finance-driven globalisation also concerns the strategy and governance of world-class enterprises, including those arms production-oriented. As defence provision is also partly transferred to business through Public-private partnership, confidence is so high in financial markets? efficiency...

The chapter addresses some issues on the relations between military and civilian technologies, many of them are related to governmental technology policy issues. Issues addressed are: Do technology policies have to be focussed in priority on defense missions if they are to be successful? Is the...