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Summary
"The book makes a strong and consistent case for significant reductions in defense spending, and reviews what will have to happen to make it possible in the least disruptive way. The coverage is broad and informative, ranging from foreign policy to industrial policy and environmental concerns." --Riddell, Smith College
"This book details what cannot be left to the 'free market' and what must be dealt with by deliberate, explicit policy." --Melman, Columbia University
With the end of the Cold War and the extraordinary military competition that characterized it, the meaning of national security is being redefined. This book participates in that task by proposing a new, demilitarized foreign policy based on collective security, and an industrial policy capable of shifting the country's major resources from military purposes to the revitalization of the economy. This reduction in military production will also make possible the reversal of the environmental legacy of the Cold War, analyzed at length here. Kevin J. Cassidy is Associate Professor of Politics at Fairfield University. Gregory A. Bischak is Executive Director of the National Commission on Economic Conversion and Disarmament.
Table of Contents
Foreword Betty A. Reardon
Introduction and Overview Kevin J. Cassidy
Part One Real Security and Economic Conversion
1. Cooperative Security, Disarmament, and the Construction of International Peacekeeping Institutions Gregory A. Bischak
2. Economic Development, Technology, and Defense Conversion: A National Policy Perspective Joel Yudken
3. Environmental Dimensions of Disarmament and Conversion Michael Renner
4. The Obstacles to Real Security: Military Corporatism and the Cold War State Gregory A. Bischak
Part Two The Making of Conversion Policy
5. Economic Conversion: The Key to Building a Peace Economy Gregory A. Bischak and Joel Yudken
6. Capitol Hill and Conversion: A Summary of Recent Congressional Action Maggie Bierwirth
7. Converting the Military Industrial Economy: The Experience of Six Communities Catherine Hill, Sabina Deitrick, and Ann Markusen
8. Building a Peace Economy from the Bottom Up Michael Closson
9. Post-Soviet Conversion: Problems and Prospects David W. McFadden
10. Conclusion: Real Security, Real Democracy Kevin J. Cassidy
Appendix: President Clinton's 1993 Conversion Program
