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Questioning Globalized militarism: Nuclear and military production and critical Economic Theory (2007)

Auteur	Peter Custers
Datum	2007
Classificatie	6.01.0.10/87 (KOSTEN)
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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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