Manufacturing Insecurity : : The Rise and Fall of Brazil’s Military-Industrial Complex / / Ken Conca.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Conca, Ken ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1 The Puzzling Trajectory of Brazil's Defense Sector --; 2 The Origins of Military Industrialization --; Part 1 : The Rise --; 3 The Rise of the Modern Military-Industrial Sector --; 4 Brazil in the Global Arms Economy --; 5 The Domestic Politics of Military Industrialization --; Part 2 : The Fall --; 6 Diverging Structures and Dilemmas of Adjustment --; 7 The AM-X Tactical Fighter --; 8 The VLS Program --; 9 The Osório Battle Tank --; 10 The Nuclear Submarine Program --; Part 3: Implications --; 11 Institutional Tensions and the Failure to Adjust --; 12 Development, Security, and Military Industrialization in the Third World --; Appendix A Measuring Brazilian Military-Industrial Activity --; Appendix B Interviews --; Appendix C Acronyms --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685858087; 9783110784268
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685858087
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ken Conca.

Examines the domestic and global forces that led to the spectacular decline of what had been the Third World’s most successful manufacturer of weapons for international sale.