Disarmament, Economic Conversion, and Management of Peace

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Scholars across several disciplines discuss possible negative economic and social consequences of international military disarmament, including unemployment associated with the conversion from a military industrial economy to a civilian complex, conversion costs, and the related hampered growth of research and development. The authors present techniques for managing sectoral and regional economic imbalances, and conclude that disarmament would ultimately release resources for foreign aid to close the gap between the developed and developing worlds.

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MANAS CHATTERJI is Professor of Management, Adjunct Professor of Economics, and Director of the Griffiss Program at the State University of New York in Binghamton. He has authored and edited several books on Peace Studies and related topics, including Analytical Techniques of Conflict Management, Dynamics and Conflict in Regional Structural Change, and Economic Issues of Disarmament. LINDA RENNIE FORCEY is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Coordinator of the Peace Studies Program at the State University of New York in Binghamton. She is the author of Mothers of Sons: Toward an Understanding of Responsibility (Praeger, 1987) and Peace: Meanings, Politics, Strategies (Praeger, 1989).