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“Public Private Partnership:” Lessons from the Brazilian Armaments Industry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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In Less than Twenty Years Brazil has become one of the ten largest exporters of conventional armaments in the world. How the Brazilian armaments industry has achieved such success offers a rich case study of an effective division of labor between state and firm. With the state acting as technological agent and ambassador to external markets, the firms have become innovators of internationally competitive armaments systems. Rather than being forced, by military control, to produce highly sophisticated weapons systems, Brazilian defense firms receive support to develop products which cater to an international demand for those conventional armaments which occupy a niche just below the technological frontier defined by the superpowers.
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- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , Winter 1987 , pp. 41 - 68
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- Copyright © University of Miami 1987
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