Defining the “European Defence Technological Industrial Base”

I have just published a blog post for GlobalEurope entitled ‘Defining the “European Defence Technological Industrial Base”: The Emergence of a Transnational Field under Dependencies’.

Abstract

How then can we define the European Industrial and Technological Defence Base (EDTIB)? In this article, I propose to define it as “a transnational political-industrial field bringing together state and industrial actors working through European cooperation to develop and produce military or dual-use technologies to arm the state.” This definition distinguishes the EDTIB from both non-European defense industries—particularly the transatlantic one (TDTIB)—and national defense industries (NDTIBs). I will explain this definition below in order to clarify the scope of this transnational political-industrial field (horizontal differentiation), its actors (sectoral differentiation), and its organization (vertical differentiation).

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