Making Peace Possible. The Promise of Economic Conversion

Content: 
Titles of Related Interest, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface: Conversion: The Idea Whose Time Has Come, Pages vii-x
Economic Conversion: The Critical Link, Pages 3-15
International Experience of Conversion, Pages 17-22
Economic Conversion as a Set of Organizing Ideas, Pages 23-36
Conversion to a Peaceful Economy: Criteria, Objectives, and Constituencies, Pages 37-53
Swords into Ploughshares: The Quest for Peace and Human Development, Pages 55-69
Arms Exports: The Stop-gap Alternative to Pentagon Contracts?, Pages 73-86
Swords and Sheepskins: Militarization of Higher Education in the United States and Prospects of its Conversion, Pages 87-109
Facing the Second Generation of the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Renewal of the Nuclear Production Base or Economic Conversion?, Pages 111-137
Converting the Military Economy Through the Local State: Local Conversion Prospects in Massachusetts, Pages 139-159
Law for Economic Conversion: Necessity and Characteristics, Pages 161-166
Arms Conversion and the Defence Industry in the United Kingdom: A Review of Recent Developments, Pages 169-183
High Technology Programmes: For the Military or for the Economy?, Pages 185-217
Conversion from Military to Civil Production in Sweden, Pages 221-229
Conversion: Global, National and Local Effects. A Case Study of Norway, Pages 231-249
The Promise of Economic Conversion, Pages 253-263
United Nations Study on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development, Pages 267-300
About the Contributors, Pages 301-302
Index, Pages 303-317