A North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Studies Institute (AS I) on Defense Conversion Strategies was held at the Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland, from July 2 through July 14, 1995. This publication is the proceedings of the Institute. The NATO Advanced Studies Institute program of the NATO Science Committee is a unique and valuable forum under whose auspices over one thousand international tutorial meetings have been held since the inception of the program in 1959. The ASI is intended to be primarily a high-level teaching activity at which a carefully defined subject is presented in a systematic and coherently structured program. The subject is treated in considerable depth by lecturers eminent in their fields and of international standing. The subject is presented to other experts or practitioners who will already have specialized in the field or possess an advanced general background appropriate to the topic. The ASI is aimed at an audience at the post-doctoral level. This does not exclude advanced graduate students or other senior participants with qualifications and achievements in the subject of the ASI or rclated areas. This ASI was prompted by several events in the defense environment.

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Fundamentals of International Technology Transfer.- Developments in the Defense Conversion Context.- Defense Conversion at Boeing.- Policy Drivers and Issues in Europe.- Economics of Disarmament and Conversion.- Models of Conversion.- Conversion in the Perm Region of Russia: Empirical Studies.- Military Technology and Its Linkage to the Civilian Economy.- Conversion in Hungary.- The Civilization of Military-Industrial Complex in Post-Cold War World OR: Military-Industrial Complex as the Socialist Institution.- Conversion and Control of Technological Capabilities in the Missile Field: The Dual-Use Paradox.- The Global Economy and International Stability: Beating Old words Into New.- The Economies of Defense Conversion.- The European Arms Industry: Between Downsizing, Internationalization and Integration.- Banking and Defense Conversion.- Venture Capital and Defense Conversion.- Intellectual Property Aspects of Defense Conversion.- Measurement and Evaluation of Technology Transfer From U.S. Dual-Use and Technology Programs.- Total Quality Management and Systematic Innovation in Defense Conversion.- Converting Defense R&D in Russia: Problems and Promise.- Conversion at A Russian Shipyard in Estonia.- Social and Economic Aspects of Military Conversion in the Urals.- The Concepts of Russian Aerospace Research Center Conversion.- Conversion of Defense Electronics Industry.- Civil-Defense Strategies in the UK.- Conversion Experiences and Policies in Italy.- Crisis and Conversion in the French Arms Industry National and Regional Aspects.- Westinghouse Defense Conversion Projects.- U.S. DoD Technology Transfer Policy and Mechanisms.- Appendices.- Appendix A: Poster Papers..- The Prospect for the International Cooperation in Conversion.- Crisis in the Russian Missile andSpace Sector.- Fluoroplastic Coatings of Cold Drying Tetron.- Practical Experience: International Collobration in Military Conversion Technologies.- The Technology Deployment Center.- Numerical Simulation of Microwave Generation from Virtual Cathode Driven by High Repetition Short Pulse Electron Gun.- Civilian Applicability of Projects Funded by the U.S. Army Research Office.- Conversion Problems in Scientific Research.- Filter and Filter Elements for Liquid and Gas Cleaning from the Solid Impurities.- Setting Up Successful Strategic Alliances.- Two-Beam Accelerator Based on a Vircator-Generator and a Periodical Magnetic Field.- Development of a Project and Theoretical Substantiations of a Two-Beam Electron-Ion Accelerator Based on Doppler Effect.- Doctrines of National Security, and Problems of Control of Armed Forces Evolution.- U.S. Small Business in International Cooperation for Defense Conversion.- An Examination of the UK's Military Aircraft Industry's Response to the Post Cold War.- Use of Electron Accelerators to Deactivate Poisonous War Substances.- High-Voltage String Satellite System for Active Experiments in the Earth Magnetosphere.- Conversion Activities of Scientific and Production Center Soliton-NTT.- Defense Conversion and the Problem of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Other Hazard Materials.- Appendix B: Organizing Committee.- Appendix C: Lecturers.- Appendix D: Attendees.