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Questioning Globalized militarism: Nuclear and military production and critical Economic Theory (2007)
| Author | Peter Custers |
| Date | 2007 |
| Classification | 6.01.0.10/87 (COSTS) |
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Acknowledgements This project has emerged out of a long period of gestation. Work on it started way back in the 1980s when, as an activist in the Dutch peace movement, I participated in civil disobedience against the threat of nuclear annihilation. Whereas broad sections of the then peace movement in the Netherlands agreed on the demand that the US and other western states take unilateral steps to prevent a nuclear conflagration, a minority of activists, gathered under the banner of the organization Bonk, believed that direct actions were justifiable and necessary. In between peak periods of organizing, I spent considerable time and energy analysing the economic forces behind the war-posturing of the Reagan government. The result was a booklet on 'Star Wars' which retains a certain relevance today in view of the US government's resolve to build a missile 'defense' system. As I undertook my research on the driving forces behind 'Star Wars', I realized that most existing textbooks on economics do not provide adequate guidelines on how to analyse the shifting relationship between military allocations and the business cycle in the US and elsewhere.
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