Introduction : the controversial economic question of peace and war / Jacques Fontanel, Manas Chatterji -- Defense-industrial establishment of Russia / Alexander Karlik, Igor Maximtsev, Jean-Paul H(c)Øebert, Paul-Marie Clouet -- The determinants of military expenditures / Jacques Fontanel, Ivan...

The economic analysis of disarmament in the next millennium may be developed from three main perspectives: At the end of the 20th century, the data seem to confirm, at least partially, the reality of a world disarmament process. There is an obsolescence of the disarmament analyses developed...

The experience of Russia in the field of conversion indicates that it is a costly process, because large expenditures are needed to compensate the enterprises for the losses produced by decreases in defence production and by the maintenance of average wages and salaries, without efficient...

The economics of disarmament is a new discipline. It involves analyses on the economic causes of the arms race, the definitions of disarmament and the economic determinants and military expenditure. Simultaneously, disarmament is considered as an obstacle to economic development, a peace...

Galbraith, as economist of the peace, denounces excessive militarism. According to him, the military sector is indeed particularly illustrative of the power of the technostructures which are partially autonomous, escaping all democratic control. Galbraith was led to develop a heterodox thought...