scholarly journals Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How to Make Sense of Turkey’s S-400 Choice?

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (Summer 2020) ◽  
pp. 161-181
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kibaroğlu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Underlying Factor ◽  
Correct Representation ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Hard Place

With the wrap-up of the S-400 deal with Russia in December 2017, critics argue that Turkey is caught between a rock and a hard place due to the adamant opposition of its NATO allies, the United States in particular, which has threatened Ankara with imposing severe sanctions. Would this be the correct representation of the situation at hand? Does it make any sense for Turkey to engage Russia, an archrival nation, to enhance the security of the country? Is the S-400 deal worth the risk of alienating the allied nations whose projected sanctions may have wide-ranging political, economic and military repercussions? With these questions in mind, this paper will try to shed light on the specifics of the S-400 deal that make one think that it may indeed make sense for Turkey to bear the brunt of engaging Russia. In the same vein, the paper will assess the impact of the S-400 deal on Turkey’s defense industries. The paper will also present the author’s conception of the current “international political non-order” as an underlying factor behind the deal. Finally, the paper will suggest that the S-400 deal must be approached from a wider perspective so as to grasp the extent of the service it has done in bolstering Turkey’s military-industrial complex.

The Washington Consensus, liberal ideas and terms of the military-technological policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 2103-2123
Author(s):  
V.L. Gladyshevskii ◽  
E.V. Gorgola ◽  
D.V. Khudyakov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internal Quality ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Industrial Complexes ◽  
The Military

Subject. In the twentieth century, the most developed countries formed a permanent military economy represented by military-industrial complexes, which began to perform almost a system-forming role in national economies, acting as the basis for ensuring national security, and being an independent military and political force. The United States is pursuing a pronounced militaristic policy, has almost begun to unleash a new "cold war" against Russia and to unwind the arms race, on the one hand, trying to exhaust the enemy's economy, on the other hand, to reindustrialize its own economy, relying on the military-industrial complex. Objectives. We examine the evolution, main features and operational distinctions of the military-industrial complex of the United States and that of the Russian Federation, revealing sources of their military-technological and military-economic advancement in comparison with other countries. Methods. The study uses military-economic analysis, scientific and methodological apparatus of modern institutionalism. Results. Regulating the national economy and constant monitoring of budget financing contribute to the rise of military production, especially in the context of austerity and crisis phenomena, which, in particular, justifies the irrelevance of institutionalists' conclusions about increasing transaction costs and intensifying centralization in the industrial production management with respect to to the military-industrial complex. Conclusions. Proving to be much more efficient, the domestic military-industrial complex, without having such access to finance as the U.S. military monopolies, should certainly evolve and progress, strengthening the coordination, manageability, planning, maximum cost reduction, increasing labor productivity, and implementing an internal quality system with the active involvement of the State and its resources.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Kimberly D. McKee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
International Adoption ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Transnational Adoption ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
American Military ◽  
Military Industrial Complex

This chapter situates the origins of international adoption in the American military industrial complex and the localized effects of American imperialism abroad. The long-standing relationship between the United States and Korea elucidates how a single program laid the groundwork for international adoption programs across the globe. This chapter provides an overview for considering how the transnational adoption industrial complex facilitated the growth of a sustained phenomenon of globalized, social reproduction. As part of this analysis, this chapter discusses two new adoptee tropes—the adoptee killjoy and every adoptee—that were borne from the happy, grateful adoptee and angry, bitter adoptee stereotypes. The adoptee killjoy and every adoptee exist on a continuum of minor affects that arise in adoptees’ critiques of adoption practices.

The Political Economy of the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States

1985 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Baack ◽  
Edward Ray
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War I ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
The Military

Despite the attention given by scholars to the military-industrial complex few studies have attempted to pinpoint and explain its origin. In this paper we argue that the coalescing of business, military, and political interest groups in support of a military build-up in the United States during peacetime occurred in the years between the Civil War and World War I. It was during this period that we observe the roots of institutional arrangements between the military and industry for the purpose of large-scale weapons acquisitions.

China’s Joint Military and Civilian Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 09 (02) ◽  
pp. 26-33
Author(s):  
Gang CHEN ◽  
Minghui YU
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Military Reform ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
International Profile ◽  
The Military

China’s ambitious military reform deepens with the establishment of a new commission on 22 January 2017 helmed by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The new commission will oversee the integration of military and civilian development. Xi aims to nurture Chinese defence manufacturers that are comparable to Lockheed Martin and Boeing in the United States and develop a military-industrial complex for the military modernisation commensurate with its rising international profile.

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