TY - BOOK ID - 85654821 TI - European defence decision-making : dilemmas of collaborative arms procurement PY - 2021 SN - 1000039528 0367853795 9780367853792 9781000039528 9781000039269 1000039269 9781000039399 1000039390 9780367425982 3731501872 9781032173641 PB - London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group DB - UniCat KW - Defense industries KW - Armaments industries KW - Arms sales KW - Military sales KW - Military supplies industry KW - Munitions KW - Sale of military equipment KW - Industries KW - Arms transfers KW - International cooperation. KW - European Union countries KW - Europe KW - Military policy. KW - Armed Forces KW - Appropriations and expenditures. KW - Procurement. KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Control KW - Observer/Controller-Architektur KW - Mobile Arbeitsmaschine KW - SimulationComplexity KW - Simulation KW - Komplexität KW - Steuerung KW - Mobile Machines KW - Observer/Controller-Architecture KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - Polemology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85654821 AB - "This book comparatively examines the preferences of four key arms-producing states towards European joint armaments programmes. The European defence market is characterised by a mixture of inter-state competition and European cooperation, and this work assesses why countries sometimes decide to cooperate with their partners, while in other instances they refrain from doing so. In order to shed light on this empirical puzzle, the book focuses on state-defence industry relations in the four major European arms producers: France, Germany, Italy and the UK. The main argument is that the public or private governance of industrial suppliers and market size are the two decisive variables that explain the simultaneous presence of cooperation and competition in European defence procurement. Specifically, it argues that in public governance ecosystems, arms industries are able to 'capture' the state's decision-making processes to their own advantage. In private governance ecosystems, the state is relatively autonomous from defence industry's influence and able to pursue larger macro-economic and military benefits. Moreover, the strategy pursued by governments and defence firms is decisively shaped by market size because of its importance in determining the relative costs and benefits of collaborative arrangements. This book will be of much interest to students of EU policy, defence studies, European politics and International Relations"-- ER -