Given the steady decrease of procurement budgets, a liberalization of the defense markets and international collaboration may provide for a more cost-efficient development and production od defense goods. Although economic theory provides that collaboration may ultimately be beneficial for all states, manly larger states with internationally more competitive defense industrial bases have called for and determined collaboration in the domain of armaments.
This project analysis in what respect the institutional structures of armaments organizations created as part of NATO (CNAD, TCC, MPSB, MAS, NAMSO, Eurogroup) and in a European context (IEPG, WEAG, WEAO, OCCAr, EDA) bare positive and negative externalities for small states by systematically enabling or restricting different actors political, corporate, military and recently also international bureaucratic actors.
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