Making Peace Possible

Preface. Conversion: the idea whose time has come, I Thorsson. Economic Conversion for Disarmament and Development. Economic conversion: the critical link, L J Dumas. International experience of conversion, N Ball. Economic conversion as a set of organising ideas, L R Peattie. Conversion to a peaceful economy: criteria, objectives, and constituencies, M G Renner. Swords into ploughshares: the quest for peace and human development, M Thee. Economic Conversion in the United States. Arms exports: the stop-gap alternative to Pentagon contracts?, P Quigley. Swords and sheepskins: militarisation of higher education in the United States and prospects of its conversion, R Krinsky. Facing the second generation of the nuclear weapons complex: renewal of the nuclear production base or economic conversion?, G Bischak. Converting the military economy through the local state: local conversion prospects in Massachusetts, J M Feldman. Law for economic conversion: necessity and characteristics, S Melman. Armaments and the Economy. Arms conversion and the defence industry in the United Kingdom: a review of recent developments, T Woodhouse, S Schofield & P Southwood. High technology programmes: for the military or for the economy?, M Pianta. Scandinavian Studies. Conversion from military to civil production in Sweden, I Thorsson. Conversion: global, national and local effects. A case study of Norway, N P Gleditsch, O Bjerkholt & A Cappelen. Conclusion. The promise of economic conversion, L J Dumas. Appendix. United Nations Study on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development. About the contributors. Index.