Pol Econ of Defense, PhD Student @jfkinstitutefub; Visiting Scholar @BUPardeeSchool; Morgenthau Fellow 2022-23 @ND_ISC; Research Fellow 2023-24 @Hertie_Security
Berlin, Germany
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What are the implications of Russia's war in 🇺🇦 for the 🇪🇺 defense industry? How does this peculiar industry work in general? I address these questions in a cluster for the open science platform @tema_think. The special input te.ma/art/ztm35q/hellemeier-… synthesizes /1
Great piece by @hoshigi_nam and @W_Alex_Sanchez on how vital exports are for second-tier arms producers to sustain production! It begs the question: To what extent do the expectations of those exports drive production decisions?
In their new article, Hoshik Nam (@hoshigi_nam) and Wilder Alejandro Sánchez (@W_Alex_Sanchez) discuss the growth of the South Korean defense industry and how expanding into the Latin American market offers an opportunity for diversification. ow.ly/kmMA30sFSlG
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I’m excited to share my first article on @WarOnTheRocks with @W_Alex_Sanchez! If you want to learn more about the current issues and future prospects of the South Korean defense industry and its potential impact in Latin America, check out the article!
In their new article, Hoshik Nam (@hoshigi_nam) and Wilder Alejandro Sánchez (@W_Alex_Sanchez) discuss the growth of the South Korean defense industry and how expanding into the Latin American market offers an opportunity for diversification. ow.ly/kmMA30sFSlG
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"Markets in Defense of Europe" is most likely going to be my favorite article title. Together with @kaijaschilde, I had the opportunity to advance our argument on how the European Union can leverage its regulatory authority to shape the European defense/1
fiscally sustaining demand. Or, as we argue, defense inflation will return with a vengeance, posing an obstacle to the sustainable provision of defense as a public good at the national level. A better functioning European defense market through EU regulation is not just /5
It is important to note that @SIPRI data captures only international armament dynamics and does not account for domestic or cooperative arms procurement. I conclude by highlighting a few trends relevant to Europe, focusing on the largest importers and exporters and their /5
respective suppliers and recipients.
Link to the article (in German): esut.de/2024/06/fachbeitraeg…
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Could not be more excited to be included in the latest @SurvivalEditors issue with my article 'Forever Bound? Japan’s Road to Self-defence and the US Alliance' exploring the promises of Tokyo's defence reform:
➡️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Not that I'm opposed to ramping up production, but reducing this to a matter of 'will' and/or 'pressure' ignores decades of defense economics research. Neither the transformation of civilian industrial capacity into defense industrial capacity nor the application of 1/2
This is unfortunately quite accurate. Diehl and Hensoldt are already among the few German arms manufacturers that have established an automated product line for IRIS-T SLM, but it's far from enough.
Germany remains an industrial powerhouse capable of converting its civilian manufacturing capacity into military capacity -- and grow its stagnating economy in the process --, if only the will and pressure were there.
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Last week, NDISC held a reception for our first four cohorts of the Hans J. Morgenthau Fellowship at the International Studies Association Conference in San Francisco. It was great to see everyone there, and to connect young scholars working on grand strategy.
For @esutde (esut.de/2024/04/fachbeitraeg…), I took a closer look at the EU's Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS) published last month. My analysis suggests that the Commission should refrain from political symbolism in the form of a Defence Commissioner as this would probably be /1
(see @jcaverley's tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… and warontherocks.com/2023/08/co…). Lastly, none of these regulatory measures will attract much political spotlight and a Defence Commissioner may be a necessary part of the post-EP election negotiations. But they promise to spend every /5
defence € more efficiently. Despite European defence expenditures reaching Cold War levels, financial resources remain constrained. The enduring challenge of defence inflation for high-end tournament goods persists (see @Justin_Br0nk's rusi.org/explore-our-researc…) /end
