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Accordino 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger,$dc2000. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-275-96561-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [189]-198) and index. 327 $aCover -- CAPTIVES OF the COLD WAR ECONOMY -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- NOTES -- 1 The National Context: Defense Spending and Conversion Policy in the 1990s -- THE COSTS OF THE COLD WAR -- THE PROMISE OF CONVERSION -- DEFENSE CUTBACKS AND NATIONAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIES -- Base Closings -- Conversion versus Deficit Reduction -- The Clinton Conversion Policies -- DEEPER CAUSES: DEFENSE ADDICTION -- The Iron Triangle -- Defense as Industrial Policy in a Laissez-Faire Society -- Military Ideology -- MIXED NATIONAL SIGNALS AND LOCAL RESPONSES -- NOTES -- 2 The Community Context: Development Interests and Economic Dependency -- LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND POWERS -- BUSINESS INTERESTS -- Local Growth Interests -- Export-Oriented Businesses -- Pittsburgh as a Paradigm Case -- Local Growth and Export Businesses in Accord -- Challengers of Traditional Business Interests -- LOCAL INTERESTS AND MILITARY DEPENDENCY -- NOTES -- 3 The Military Metropolis: Boosters, Bases, and Shipbuilding in Hampton Roads -- BUILDING THE MILITARY METROPOLIS -- Norfolk and Portsmouth -- Newport News -- Defense Dependence -- DEFENSE-SPENDING CUTBACKS AND PRIVATE-SECTOR RESPONSES -- Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Responds -- Responses in the Ship-Repair Industry -- Responses in the Service Industries -- COMMUNITY-WIDE RESPONSES -- Renewing the Growth Vision: The Plan 2007 Process -- Assisting Existing Businesses: The Peninsula Advanced Technology Center -- Defending Hampton Roads against BRAC'95 -- Converting Defense Workers: A Fragmented Approach -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4 The New Face of Defense: Systems Engineers and Bureaucrats in Northern Virginia -- THE RISE OF THE HIGH-TECH DEFENSE ECONOMY -- COMMUNITY CONTEXT: SUBURBANIZATION AND GROWTH INTERESTS -- DEFENSE CUTBACKS AND LOCAL RESPONSES -- Defense-Contractor Responses. 327 $aCOMMUNITY RESPONSES TO PROCUREMENT CUTBACKS -- Individual Localities -- Fairfax County -- Arlington County -- Manassas -- Region-Wide Dislocated-Worker Services -- Small-Business Development Centers -- RESPONSES TO THE BRAC PROCESS: RESISTANCE AND REUSE PLANNING -- The Crystal City Office Complex and Arlington County Task Force -- Cameron Station, Alexandria -- Vint Hill Farms Station, Fauquier County -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 5 Rural Areas and Small Cities: Dependency, Adjustment, and Conversion -- ECONOMIC DISLOCATION IN APPALACHIA: THE RADFORD ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT -- Background -- Defense Dependency and Cutbacks -- Community-Wide Initiatives -- New River Valley Economic Adjustment Strategy -- Converting the Radford Army Ammunition Plant -- Dislocated Worker Services -- Other Community Initiatives -- TROOPS, TEXTILES, AND TOBACCO IN SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA: THE FORT PICKETT ARMY BASE -- Fort Pickett's Functions -- Economic Impact -- Efforts to Enhance the Fort -- An Effort to Diversify the Fort -- Defending the Fort in the BRAC'95 Process -- Reuse Planning -- DEFENSE-CONVERSION PLANNING IN THEORY: THE RESPONSE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Background -- Defense Dependency, Cutbacks, and Community Responses -- Community Responses to Defense Dependency -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 6 The State Politics of Defense Restructuring: Adjustment and Resistance -- MONITORING AND ADAPTING TO PROCUREMENT CUTBACKS: 1990-1993 -- Research and Monitoring Activities -- Defense Conversion and Adjustment Planning: The Wilder Commission -- The Governor's Conference on Defense Conversion -- THE CAMPAIGN TO RESIST BASE CLOSINGS, 1993-1995 -- Defending the Bases: The Allen Commission and Other Activities -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 7 Conversion Advocacy in Other States and Localities -- SAN DIEGO -- MAINE -- WASHINGTON STATE -- CONNECTICUT -- TUCSON -- ST. LOUIS -- A NOTE ON MASSACHUSETTS. 327 $aCONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 8 Transforming the Politics of Defense Conversion -- SUMMING UP: STAKEHOLDERS AND OTHER INFLUENCES -- Regional Industrial Structure and the Nature and Magnitude of Cutbacks -- Established Interests: Elected Officials -- Growth Interests -- Prime Contractors -- Unions -- Peace Advocates -- Technology Interests -- Appointed Officials -- Institutional Capacity -- Local Political and Fiscal Structures -- Leadership -- Federal Assistance -- THE UPSHOT -- ENDING THE COLD WAR CAPTIVITY -- A Real New-World Order -- And What of Conversion? -- Local Reforms to Enhance Regional Planning -- First Things First -- NOTES -- References -- Index -- About the Author. 606 $aMilitary base conversion$zUnited States 606 $aEconomic conversion$zUnited States 606 $aDefense industries$zUnited States 615 0$aMilitary base conversion 615 0$aEconomic conversion 615 0$aDefense industries 676 $a338.4/76233/0973 700 $aAccordino$b John J$01710116 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817945403321 996 $aCaptives of the Cold War economy$94100466 997 $aUNINA