Real Security Converting the Defense Economy and Building Peace |
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| Editor:
| Cassidy, Kevin J.
Bischak, Gregory A. |
| Series title: | SUNY Series, Global Conflict and Peace Education Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7914-1607-5 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1993 |
| Publisher: | State University of New York Press
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| Imprint: | Suny Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $99.00 |
Book Description:
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With the end of the Cold War and the extraordinary military competition that characterized it, the meaning of national security is being redefined. This book participates in that task by proposing a new, demilitarized foreign policy based on collective security, and an industrial policy capable of shifting the country's major resources from military purposes to the revitalization of the economy. This reduction in military production will also make possible the reversal of the...
More DescriptionWith the end of the Cold War and the extraordinary military competition that characterized it, the meaning of national security is being redefined. This book participates in that task by proposing a new, demilitarized foreign policy based on collective security, and an industrial policy capable of shifting the country's major resources from military purposes to the revitalization of the economy. This reduction in military production will also make possible the reversal of the environmental legacy of the Cold War, analyzed at length here.