Defence procurement deals with products that are highly differentiated and its regulation is extremely complex. The 'defence organisation' and 'industry' are the two principal parties involved in procurement transactions. Domestic sourcing of defence materiel has long been encouraged in most...

Australia has been something of a laboratory for policy experiment aimed at developing and maintaining defence-related industry capability at an acceptable social cost. The issues that successive governments have aimed to address under the heading of 'defence self-reliance' include: public vs....

To generate effective policy to reduce the proliferation of illicit small arms in developing countries, governments must understand how the weapons are distributed and illegal stockpiles formed. This paper describes the structural characteristics of small arms supply chains and models mechanisms...