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Beswick, Harry (2021)

How liberalism ensured the British government would lose control of the UK’s Defence Industrial Base

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)
This paper details the path of the British defence industrial base against the development in Western capitalism. British economic hegemony of the nineteenth century was inherited by the United States throughout the first decades of the twentieth. The shifts in global ecnonomic structures had profound effects British State-capital relationships. The British state has long been a facilitator of capital. Yet US in the twentieth global dominance has seen this paradigm taken to hitherto unseen levels. Nowhere is this more apparaent than UK government dealings with the Britih defence industry.
Author
Beswick, Harry
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Global Conflict in the Modern Era
Supervisors
Cusumano, E.
ECTS Credits
25
Language
en