What realms for defence economics? / Jacques Aben -- Public-private partnerships and the transformation of defence investment / Renaud Bellais -- The economic and spatial sides of defence support / Josselin Droff -- For a general concept of economic and human security / Jacques Fontanel, Bénédicte Corvaisier-Drouart -- Defence restructuring and local policies. The case of taranto, a military port on the Mediterranean Sea / Francesca Artioli -- The local footprint of defence industry : the natural experience of Brest / Thierry Sauvin, Roland de Penanros -- Looking at military landscapes : definition and approaches / Rachel Woodward -- The impact of military service on future labor-market outcomes / Alfredo R. Paloyo -- Regional representation in the U.S. military / Cindy Williams -- Women and conflicts, the adaptation of UN 1325 resolution in the European Union / Steven Coissard, Liliane Perrin-Bensahel -- Defence expenditures : theory and empirics / Carlos Seiglie, Scott Yi-Chun Lin and Tanu Kohli -- Defence firms beyond national borders : internationalisation or multi-domestic approach? / Renaud Bellais and Susan Jackson -- Defence offsets : regulation and impact on the integration of the European defence equipment market / Gueorgui Ivanakiev.

This volume analyses several recent evolutions in global defence activities. Since the 1990s the industry has gradually repositioned because of geo-strategic transformations, spatial reorganisation, budgetary trends, and evolutions within the production of defence per se, which have disrupted its economic and social fabric. These changes widen the scope of industrial activities and modify the organization of relations between armed forces, firms and local economies as well as society. They deeply affect the footprints of defence in several dimensions and its impacts on local communities, public/private boundaries and evolving requirements of armed forces. The volume examines key features of recent and on-going transformations of defence issues from four perspectives. The first section considers those factors which are redefining the boundaries of defence, with a focus on defence economics; part two focuses on the spatial footprint of defence and its transformations and analyses the insertion of defence activities within urban landscapes; the third part analyses how armed forces manage their human resources; and the final section considers the international landscape of defence.

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