Working Group 8: Defence Economics and Management

Robert Beeres, Markus Gauster

Call for abstracts for a special panel of the ISMS Conference

“Open Science vs Military Science, with the Scent of Covid-19”

Working Group 8 Defence Management and Economics

October 13-26 and October 27-29, 2020

Please note that the panels of the working group on Defence Management and Economics will be part of the virtual network conference of the International Society of Military Sciences There will be a preliminary discussion of papers, posters, or abstracts within the working group on Moodle, 13-26 October, followed by plenaries and parallel presentations on Zoom, 27-29 October. See the ISMS website www.isofms.org for conference details and deadlines.

Panel: International Military Trade and Export Controls—Open or Closed?

The panel is organized by:

Robert Beeres, Netherlands Defence Academy 

Markus Gauster, Austrian National Defence Academy 

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The panel aims to provide an opportunity for economists, political scientists, management scientists and others from around the world to share ideas and discuss, from an interdisciplinary perspective future, developments in the following areas:

  • Determinants of international military trade
  • Different market mechanisms for different military markets
  • Comparative analysis on export control regimes
  • Compliance and integrity in international military trade
  • Development and implementation of internal compliance programs
  • The role of the defence industry
  • Datasets for arms control
  • The influence of Covid-19 on international military trade and export controls

Also welcome... 

Abstracts and presentations of papers on other related defence management & economic issues are also welcome, e.g. concerning

  • The economic dimension of contemporary armed conflicts and conflict resolution
  • Economic Impacts of Peace Operations on Host Nations and in the homeland
  • Whole of Nation-approaches and change management for external engagement
  • Resource management, change management, transformation, cost-benefit analysis,
  • logistics, defence acquisition, strategic personnel policy, accounting, defence administration, military industrial complex, measures of effectiveness, benchmarking, outsourcing, privatization, base closures, infrastructure issues
  • The economic dimension of contemporary armed conflicts and conflict resolution
  • Economic Impacts of Peace Operations on Host Nations and in the homeland
  • Whole of Nation-approaches and change management for external engagement