ABSTRACT
The main driver of the transformation was the rising costs of military research and development, inadequate base markets, limited technological and industrial sources and rapid advances in production technologies, which incentivized defence companies to search for new markets beyond the national borders. The variation in state policies poses a challenge in understanding the implication of the transformation of global arms production for the international politics and security as the debate in the field did not resolve the issue. In order to reach a better and in-depth understanding of the transformation and how defence industrial policies in the emerging states had changed and what political, economic and military development caused these changes, the people initiated an E-Workshop series. In practice, as the contents of this symposium show, the defence industrial and arms export policies of the emerging states display significant variance.
