Introduction: Challenges facing the global arms industry in the 21st century / Richard A. Bitzinger -- pt. 1. The defense industry in a global context -- Developments in the global arms industry since the end of the Cold War to the mid-2000s / J. Paul Dunne ; with the SIPRI Arms Production Program staff -- The defense iron triangle revisited / Ron Matthews and Curie Maharani -- Power, influence, and hierarchy : defense industries in a unipolar economy / Stephanie G. Neuman -- The evolution of international defense hierarchies / Philip Finnegan -- The globalization of defense industries / Keith Hayward -- The role, promise, and challenges of dual-use technologies in national defense / Kathleen A. Walsh -- pt. 2. The defense industry : regional perspectives -- The revolution in military affairs, transformation, and the U.S. defense industry / Peter Dombrowski and Andrew L. Ross -- The European defense industry in the 21st century : challenges and responses / Richard A. Bitzinger -- The Russian defense industry 1991-2008 : from the collapse of the former Soviet Union to the global financial crisis / Eugene Kogan -- Arms and autonomy : the implications of China's defense-industrial transformation / J.D. Kenneth Boutin -- Emerging defense industries : prospects and implications / J.D. Kenneth Boutin -- pt. III. The defense industry and the arms trade -- Export controls and their relationship to national defense industries / Francis Cevasco -- Offsets and international industrial participation / Bernard Udis -- The global small arms industry : transformed by war and society / Aaron Karp -- Appendix I: Key defense-industrial and arms trade-related terms / J.D. Kenneth Boutin -- Appendix II: Organizations, associations, legislation, and initiatives relating the defense industry and the arms trade / Curie Maharani -- Appendix III: Key defense companies / Richard A. Bitzinger.