Despite the dominant role of market fundamentalist ideas in US politics over the last thirty
years, the Federal government has dramatically expanded its capacity to finance and …

Written by two leading scholars, this book provides a detailed analysis of Mexico's political
economy. James M. Cypher and Raúl Delgado Wise begin with an examination of Mexico's …

The end of the Cold War in 1989 gave rise to hopes for a new, more peaceful international
system and for the redirection of military expenditures—over one-half of annual US federal …

In the 1990s, as defense budgets plummeted, nations scrambled to rationalize their defense
industries, with less than salutary results. In the United States, for instance, the Pentagon …

America's manufacturing drives the country's prosperity because of its size, its ability to
generate innovation and value, its importance to national security, its role in meeting …

This dissertation provides an explanation for recent standardization and growth of
international export control regimes. I argue that neoinstitutionalist organization theory …

The defense industrial base (DIB) is a large sector that covers skilled craftmanship, research
and development, and technological advancements to service the US Department of …

States are motivated to do what they can in the present to prepare for long-term threats to
their survival. The possibility of facing an overwhelming threat encourages interstate …

This thesis relies on realist and neo-mercantilist approaches to explain the consolidation of
the US and European aerospace and defence industry during the second half of the 1990s …

ERIK R. PAGES 0 nly two years ago, the pages of academic journals and the national media
were full of discussions about the importance of econom-ic security and the need to create a …