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ISBN 13 : 9781873230022
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Future Relations Between Defence and Civil Science and Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, London (GB)
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Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (776 download)
Download or read book Relationship Between Defence and Civil Science and Technology written by Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, London (GB) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Gummett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401578036
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Relations between Defence and Civil Technologies written by Philip Gummett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book arises from a meeting held at Wiston House, Sussex, UK, in September 1987. The meeting brought together academic, governmental and industrial experts from eight countries to discuss the increasingly important sUbject of the relations between civil and defence technologies. It was primarily funded under the Advanced Research Workshops Programme of NATO's Scientific Affairs Division, and was the first science policy workshop funded by the Programme. Additional financial support came from the Leverhulme Trust. The choice of topic, of speakers and, finally, of papers to be published was entirely ours. The conclusions reached were our own and those of the partIcipants. They were not in any way guided by NATO; nor do they represent NATO policy. We speak for all the participants in offering our thanks to the NATO SCIentific Affairs Division, especially Secretary General Durand and Dr. Craig Sinclair, for rnei r- generosity and encouragement. WIthout them this book would not exist. We thank the Leverhulme Trust for enabling assistance to be provided to the Workshop Directors, in the form of lain Bate, who himself played a major part in the success of the meeting. The staff of Wiston House must also be thanked for prOViding an admirable environment for the meeting. For secretarial support prior to the meeting we thank Gill Miller and Lesley Price. Finally, we offer special thanks to Mrs. Yvonne Aspinall for converting all the papers, in whatever state they were presented, into camera-ready copy with such professionalism and gOOd humour.
Author : Joseph Rotblat
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349148865
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Conversion of Military R&D written by Joseph Rotblat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the scale, benefits and costs of military research and development. It discusses the process of converting military R&D to civilian applications, and examines specific opportunities for, and obstacles to, conversion in the USA, Russia, France, Germany, and the UK. Among a number of case studies, senior scientists from US and Russian nuclear weapons laboratories debate the futures for these massive complexes. Looking to the future, the dual military/civilian nature of technology is discussed.
Author : Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Relationships Between Defence & Civil Science and Technology written by Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Gummett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134405464
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book European Defence Technology in Transition written by Philip Gummett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on the ten nation CREDIT (Capacity for Research on European Defence and Industrial Technology) network which was set up to tackle issue concerning defence science, technology and industrial policy, including the implications of the Cold War and a growing pan-European emphasis. By providing a comparative study of policy and practice in the countries of western Europe, the book provides vital insights into how governments and firms can begin to search for European-wide solutions to the dilemmas that face them.
Author : Robert E. Dundervill, Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401712131
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Defense Conversion Strategies written by Robert E. Dundervill, Jr. and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Studies Institute (AS I) on Defense Conversion Strategies was held at the Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland, from July 2 through July 14, 1995. This publication is the proceedings of the Institute. The NATO Advanced Studies Institute program of the NATO Science Committee is a unique and valuable forum under whose auspices over one thousand international tutorial meetings have been held since the inception of the program in 1959. The ASI is intended to be primarily a high-level teaching activity at which a carefully defined subject is presented in a systematic and coherently structured program. The subject is treated in considerable depth by lecturers eminent in their fields and of international standing. The subject is presented to other experts or practitioners who will already have specialized in the field or possess an advanced general background appropriate to the topic. The ASI is aimed at an audience at the post-doctoral level. This does not exclude advanced graduate students or other senior participants with qualifications and achievements in the subject of the ASI or rclated areas. This ASI was prompted by several events in the defense environment.
Author : Bruce J. West
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527567389
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Dialogues Concerning Science, Technology, and Intellect in American Society's and Military's Future written by Bruce J. West and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents distinctive perspectives and voices concerning the nature, utility, and limitations of science and technology in national security, as well as outlining the nature of science and technology’s interdependency with military operations. These dialogues are particularly timely during this period of transition for the US military in which these implicit ideas are molding the Army Futures Command and similar other service agencies. The design decisions being made to equip, train, educate, deploy, and lead the future force need wisdom from experienced scientists, engineers, and innovators. This book addresses fundamental issues such as the relationship between scientific advances and technological innovation and the roles of science and technology in a modern society and the military.
Author : Antonio Calcara
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000092712
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance written by Antonio Calcara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the European governance of emerging security technologies. The emergence of technologies such as drones, autonomous robotics, artificial intelligence, cyber and biotechnologies has stimulated worldwide debates on their use, risks and benefits in both the civilian and the security-related fields. This volume examines the concept of ‘governance’ as an analytical framework and tool to investigate how new and emerging security technologies are governed in practice within the European Union (EU), emphasising the relational configurations among different state and non-state actors. With reference to European governance, it addresses the complex interplay of power relations, interests and framings surrounding the development of policies and strategies for the use of new security technologies. The work examines varied conceptual tools to shed light on the way diverse technologies are embedded in EU policy frameworks. Each contribution identifies actors involved in the governance of a specific technology sector, their multilevel institutional and corporate configurations, and the conflicting forces, values, ethical and legal concerns, as well as security imperatives and economic interests. This book will be of much interest to students of science and technology studies, security studies and EU policy. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Philip Gummett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400917309
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Military R&D after the Cold War written by Philip Gummett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries establish defence industries for various reasons. Chief among these are usually a concern with national security, and a desire to be as independent as possible in the supply of the armaments which they believe they need. But defence industries are different from most other industries. Their customer is governments. Their product is intended to safeguard the most vital interests of the state. The effectiveness of these products (in the real, rather than the experimental sense) is not normally tested at the time of purchase. If, or when, it is tested, many other factors (such as the quality of political and military leadership) enter into the equation, so complicating judgments about the quality of the armaments, and about the reliability of the promises made by the manufacturers. All of these features make the defence sector an unusually political industrial sector. This has been true in both the command economies of the former Soviet Union and its satellites, and in the market or mixed economies of the west. In both cases, to speak only a little over-generally, the defence sector has been particularly privileged and particularly protected from the usual economic vicissitudes. In both cases, too, its centrality to the perceived vital interests of the state has given it an unusual degree of political access and support.
Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198291473
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Restructuring of Arms Production in Western Europe written by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profound changes are occurring in the structure of arms production in Western Europe. Concentration is increasing at a fast pace. Small producers are disappearing and even large ones are opting out of the market. The various national arms industries, long operating in protective environments, are rapidly internationalizing. Three factors combine to bring about this change: East-West detente, the creation of the Single European Market, and the constant pressure of increasingly complex technology. In this book experts describe how the framework for producing arms in Western Europe is altered, and how various actors--firms, governments, and trade unions--are adapting to the new situation. The book presents detailed analyses of all the arms-producing countries in Western Europe. In addition to describing recent changes, the authors speculate on the implications of these for the balance of power in Western Europe, the relations between Western Europe and the United States, arms exports to the Third World, and problems of converting from military to civilian production. The appendices include the SIPRI list of the 50 largest arms-producing companies in Western Europe; data on mergers and acquisitions, procurement expenditure, and exports of major weapons; selections from treaties and other official documents relevant to current and future regulation of West European arms production; and a select bibliography.
Author : Richard Coopey
Publisher : Harwood Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9783718654000
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Defence Science and Technology written by Richard Coopey and published by Harwood Academic Pub. This book was released on 1993 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defence-related industries are central to the economies of most of the advanced nations with defence and civil industrial bases often inextricably linked. This book discusses the key questions surrounding the relationship between defence and civil industry. This collection of studies highlights the complex nature of this relationship and the equally complex determinants of corporate government policy in this area. The contributors present us with analysis based on historical and contemporary examples juxtaposed with informed debate on the future relationship between defence and civil technological policy. The late 1980s and early 1990s have witnessed a profound change in the international security environment. The Gulf War, the demise of the former Soviet Union and the restructuring of Eastern Europe have forced a re-examination of defence policies, weapons procurement strategies, and research and development agendas throughout the Western world.
Author : Jorge Niosi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317741013
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book New Technology Policy and Social Innovations in the Firm written by Jorge Niosi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the light of increased discussion of technology policy by all major industrial countries, this volume presents the state of the debates and institutional change in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Canada. It goes on to present studies of the major changes taking place in these countries, with regards to the adoption of new technology, and the reorganization of institutions to suit these changes.
Author : Joseph Rotblat
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810212490
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Striving for Peace, Security, and Development of the World written by Joseph Rotblat and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The momentous events of the past year have changed the political face of the globe: the ideological struggle that dominated the world for most of this century is over; erstwhile mortal enemies have become friends and partners. But old attitudes have survived and modern weapons are in abundance. New foci of conflict have emerged; military confrontations are taking place; the world is still in turmoil.The welcome deep cuts in nuclear weapons have still left thousands of warheads in the arsenals, and the spread of these weapons to new states would further increase the danger of a nuclear confrontation.The release of the pressure pent-up under oppressive regimes created a powerful drive for independence, often achieved only after bloody wars. Many of the new states are economically non-viable: poverty and famine are frequent adjuncts of independence.If military conflicts are to be avoided, a comprehensive strategy must be formulated to improve the standards of living in the developing countries and enhance their security. A strategy is also needed to protect the environment from the effects of further industrialization and greater use of energy. What is needed is a concept of a sustainable, equitable and liveable world for all its inhabitants.All these problems were analysed by scientists and scholars who met at a Pugwash Conference. The arguments used by them and the proposed solutions are presented in this book under six themes: World Peace; Nuclear Disarmament Issues; Arms Control; Security in the Asia-Pacific Region; Development Strategies and World Economic Order; Energy and the Environment.
Author : Martin S. Navias
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781860640322
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Tanker Wars written by Martin S. Navias and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 1996-12-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Iran-Iraq war, hundreds of merchant vessels were attacked, more than 400 seamen killed and millions of dollars' worth of damages were suffered by owners, charterers and insurers. In the most sustained assault on merchant shipping since the Second World War, the control of shipping routes, destruction of enemy and enemy-allied ships, and the protection of oil exports, were key objectives. These campaigns touched the economic and security interests of the Gulf states by threatening their exports and highlighting their political and military vulnerability. The ripples of the tanker wars extended well beyond the region with attacks on vessels with foreign flags which invoked international concern and drew in foreign naval forces.
Author : Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452213631
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Science and Technology Studies written by Sheila Jasanoff and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume represents the social constructivist turn of the field. It is evident that social constructivism made a major impact on the field during the 1970s and 1980s. The diverse papers included here highlight the role of ethnography in STS. In addition, we are exposed to new perspectives of the multicultural and gendered nature of knowledge production." —Science, Technology, and Society For the most current, comprehensive resource in this rapidly evolving field, look no further than the Revised Edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. This masterful volume is the first resource in more than 15 years to define, summarize, and synthesize this complex multidisciplinary, international field. Tightly edited with contributions by an internationally recognized team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the crucial contemporary issues—both traditional and nonconventional—social studies, political studies, and humanistic studies in this changing field. Containing theoretical essays, extensive literature reviews, and detailed case studies, this remarkable volume clearly sets the standard for the field. It does nothing less than establish itself as the benchmark, one that will carry the field well into the next century. "The long-awaited Handbook of Science and Technology Studies sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science is a truly substantial work, both in size and in the breadth of its many contributions. It is a rich and valuable guide to much that is transpiring in the field of Science and Technology Studies. In the editors′ words, it is ′an unconventional but arresting atlas of the field at a particular moment in its history.′" —Science, Technology & Society "This book is not only an important resource for practitioners, but it also may help to spark the curiosity of those who are outside the field—including scientists and engineers themselves—and so pull the ′half-seen world′ of science and technology studies even more fully into the light of day." —American Scientist "The book as a whole is an impressive testimony to the vitality of a burgeoning field." —New Scientist "It reflects the international and interdisciplinary nature of the society. An excellent resource" —Choice
Author : John Lorne Campbell
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202367088
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Legacies of Change written by John Lorne Campbell and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume examine institutional change in five of the most important areas of economic life in central and eastern Europe after 1989: international and regional economic reintegration; the restructuring of the industrial base; how economic interests are to be represented; fiscal and budgetary reform; and reform of the social welfare system. The editors use these research findings to buttress a somewhat heterodox theory of institutional dynamics, one pointing to "discursive structures" and "governance structures" as key dimensions that, in combination, affect institutional change in this part of the world so that an economic "revolution" becomes an evolutionary processes of gradual transition.
