The three faces of conversion in the usa
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This article examines two institutions heavily involved in the US defence industry during the Cold War, Martin Marietta (later Lockheed Martin) and the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility. Analyses of these two institutions suggest that “conversion” per se is unlikely to occur at either in the near term future. Rather likeplutonium, these institutions appear to have long-lives, slowly and expensively decaying. In addition, the inter-democratic peace proposition is examined as a third facet ofconversion, and the argument is made that domestic and foreign policy conversions may infact provide a more profound conversion than that hoped for in commercial arenas.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Defence and Peace Economics |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 221-235 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISSN | 1024-2694 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 1995 |
Bibliographical note
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1 Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0487, USA. Presented at the International Moscow Seminar on the Conversion of the Armament Industries, April 24-26, 1995. The seminar was held at the Institute for the Economy in Transition (IET), Moscow, Russian Federation and was sponsored by collaboration between ESPACE EUROPE and the IET in the framework of the EU/TACIS/PROMETEE program. The work presented herein was conducted at the Program on Political and Economic Change and at the Center for International Relations, both at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Our thanks go to Jacques Fontanel who initially suggested that we focus some attention on this important topic.
- conversion, defence industry, United States
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