TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - West European defence industrial issues for the 1990s
JO  - Defence economics
A1  - Taylor, Tracy
SP  - 113
EP  - 121
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
N2  - The article first notes the pressure on defence industries in the 1990s resulting from reduced defence spending in Western Europe, before going on to analyse the strategic responses open to companies, including the range of ways they can develop a more international nature. There is brief consideration of the problems for companies of moving away from defence production before issues are raised by defence companies for European governments. These include the extent to which defence industrial considerations should play a part in future defence policies, especially as they involve some provision for the reconstitution of defence capabilities. The US debate on this issue is analysed and the absence of such a debate in Western Europe noted. Whatever policy West European states adopt towards their defence industrial sectors is likely to involve the European Community, and the final section of the piece outlines the current and potential involvement of the Commission in defence industrial issues.<p /> 
LA  - 
SN  - 1043-0717
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10430719308404754
ID  - ref1
ER  -