Abstract
Regionally concentrated post-cold war military spending cuts offer an opportunity to compare regional conversion across countries. The authors briefly lay out the challenge and distinguish regional from national and industrial conversion strategies. Several factors facilitate or impede region-level conversion efforts: regional contextual factors—defense dependency, isolation, diversity, and vigor in the regional economy; military industrial features—sectoral specialization, size, and ownership patterns; and political structure and behavior—federal/unitary systems, regional public sector capacity, political party structure, leadership, and coalition building. The authors illustrate each with examples drawn from eighteen regions in eight countries, the subjects of articles collected in this special issue.
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