The regional role in post-cold war military industrial conversion

International Regional Science Review

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-24

  Markusen, Ann ^a   Brzoska, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Internationales Konversionszentrum Bonn   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE INDUSTRY; POST-COLD WAR; REGIONAL PLANNING; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034024235     PISSN: 01600176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016001700761012558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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