This study charts the development of the defense industries of the Visegrad countries--Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia; Poland; and Hungary. In the first part, national case studies underline the different approaches to reform adopted in the individual countries. The second part uses unique information derived from extensive interviews at enterprises in each of the four countries to examine the transformation of industry from a producer perspective.

The Defence Industry in East-Central Europe: Restructuring and Conversion (SIPRI Monograph Series)

Business & Money

Kiss, Yudit

Economics

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

The defence industry was one of the pillars of the classic command economy system in Central Europe. Since the early 1990s the sector has gone through dramatic changes. It was radically downsized, reorganized and restructured according to the needs of the emerging new socio-economic systems. One of the major factors that shaped this adjustment was the enlargement of NATO and the European Union and the prospect of integration into these two organizations. The military establishments and defence industries became principal actors in the integration process, which helped them to acquire new economic resources and political legitimization. At the same time, integration presented unexpected new challenges and constraints for the restructuring defence industry in the region. This report describes how the defence industry adjusted to the changed political and economic environment in both the domestic and international context. The comparative analysis of the post-cold war experience of six Central European countries - Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, which joined in the first two waves of enlargement - provides valuable lessons for other countries in their processes of socio-economic transformation.

Arms Industry Transformation and Integration: The Choices of East Central Europe

Industries

Oxford University Press

Defence Industry Transformation and EU and NATO Enlargement: The Choices of Central Europe (SIPRI Research Reports, No. 23)

Shortlisted for the 2014 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize
Yudit Kiss grew up a communist in Budapest, soaking up her father's ideology unquestioningly. As a child she is puzzled when others refer to her as Jewish; she only knows that her family doesn't believe in God. How can they?
As her father lies dying, Yudit tries to understand the enigma surrounding his life. Where does his unshakeable communist conviction come from? Why doesn't he have relatives? As she digs deeper into his tragic history, Yudit is forced to confront the contradictions and lies woven into the life of her family—and her country—through the dramatic twists of twentieth century Hungary.
Yudit Kiss was born in Budapest in 1956. After having worked in Hungary, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, she moved to Switzerland in the early 1990s, where she currently lives. A researcher in economic development, she is the author of a number of articles, research papers, and academic works. This is her first literary work.
George Szirtes is a celebrated poet and translator. His books include Reel, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2005. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His translations include Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy.

The Summer My Father Died

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Telegram Books

La lessive et autres histoires de femmes migrantes

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

EN BAS

More Nights than Days: A Survey of Writings of Child Genocide Survivors

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Central European University Press

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