Countries establish defence industries for various reasons. All of these features make the defence sector an unusually political industrial sector. 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.

1: Analytical Approaches and Context.- 1 Conversion Strategies in Eastern Europe and the former USSR: a thematic overview.- 2 West European defence industrial policy after the Cold War.- 3 Concepts of Military Technology: Contesting the boundaries between the civilian and the military.- 4 New Challenges after the Cold War.- 5 Shock Therapy — is there really no alternative?.- 6 Innovation and technology policy in the East European transformation — the Hungarian case.- 2: Cases and Experiences.- 7 Critical technologies, policy and security in a middle power country: a case of avionics and systems integration in Canada.- 8 Beyond the frontier: the convergence of military and civilian R&D in the United States.- 9 Procurement policies and military R&D in the Nordic countries.- 10 Transfer of technology and managerial skills: the possible role of foreign direct investment in the development of the East.- 11 The European Union’s contribution to the R&TD capacities of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.- 12 Conversion in the Ukrainian military R&D at the beginning of the 1990s: some results and problems.- 13 Study of the requirements and experience of utilisation of knowledge and results of military researchers: case study of the Medical Research Institute in Ukraine.- 14 Establishment of a technology transfer centre in Bratislava.- 15 Conversion in Bulgaria: some contextual problems.- 16 Observations on the socio-political and cultural context of military conversion: a Polish view.

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