This important book, a successor volume to European Industries, brings together a number of in-depth and authoritative studies of key European industries, providing fascinating insights into their nature and characteristics

This chapter defines defense economics and indicates how it differs from other subfields of economics. The nature and topics of defense economics are presented. A brief history of the field is also reviewed. The current importance of defense economics in the post-cold war era is discussed....

Defence production within India is experiencing a tremendous change to accomplish self-reliance in defence technology. A growing number of AONs have been released under Make India, Buy and Make India Categorization. The quantum of Offset commitments under defence agreements is usually...

1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Why Warships? -- 1.3 How Do You Get Your Information? -- 1.4 The Structure of the Study -- Notes -- 2 Changing Navies and Naval Technology -- 2.1 Order of Battle, 1960 and 1980 -- 2.2 “The Navy Always Travels First Class” -- 2.3 Conclusions -- Notes --...