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Public-Private Partnerships and the Transformation of Defence Investment

The Evolving Boundaries of Defence: An Assessment of Recent Shifts in Defence Activities

ISBN: 978-1-78350-974-4, eISBN: 978-1-78350-965-2

Publication date: 14 August 2014

Abstract

Launched in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) induced radical changes in both the public-private boundaries and the production of state-provided services. Such ‘budgetary revolution’ impacted the biggest state spender in capital expenditures, that is, the Ministry of Defence. Today many MoDs are expected to leverage on the British experience and develop their own approach of PPPs to overcome both the ineffectiveness of their defence spending and today’s stalemate in public budgets. This chapter leverages on British experiences over the past two decades to analyse the benefits and limits of PPPs in the realm of defence. Does such contractual arrangement fit defence-related investment? This chapter explores the on-going redefinition of public and private realms in military matters and it puts into relief the key dimensions of PPPs in terms of contractual arrangement.

Citation

Bellais, R. (2014), "Public-Private Partnerships and the Transformation of Defence Investment", The Evolving Boundaries of Defence: An Assessment of Recent Shifts in Defence Activities (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 23), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 25-49. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1572-832320140000023005

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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