The defense industry holds promising potential that could be a new growth engine of competitiveness with large-scale investments and integration of cutting-edge technologies.The advanced countries, including G7 and ex-communist countries, have been focusing on strategies to enforce their...

Countries undergoing economic transition in the early 1990s faced enormous challenges in the process of shifting from a centrally-planned economic system toward a market-based economy. During the transition period, large state sectors of the former Socialist countries in the Eastern bloc...