NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2021: Compliance and Integrity in International Military Trade

The NL ARMS open-access volume explores Compliance and Integrity in International Military Trade (CIIMT), integrating defence economics, international law, arms export control frameworks, information management, organizational sciences, and ethics. The Faculty of Military Sciences at the Netherlands Defence Academy offers an MSc programme on CIIMT to contribute to the need for critical thinking, reflection, and creativity in addressing multi-faceted issues and problems. The programme integrates practice-based and scientific-based knowledge to explore, analyse, understand, explain, control, and improve the military dimension in international military trade, particularly in strategic trade control of military and dual-use goods and services.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 309 pages
Publication date: 21 September 2021
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press

The Netherlands Defence Academy's Faculty of Military Sciences offers an interdisciplinary MSc programme on Compliance and Integrity in International Military Trade (CIIMT). This open-access volume explores the multifaceted domain, integrating defence economics, international law, arms export control frameworks, information management, organizational sciences, and ethics. While CIIMT is a relatively novel research area in academia, it garners significant attention and interest across private and public defence-related sectors. This prompts a demand for critical thinking, reflection, and creativity to address the complex issues and challenges it presents.

The MSc programme on CIIMT at the Netherlands Defence Academy aims to contribute to this need by offering a comprehensive curriculum that combines practice-based and scientific-based knowledge. It focuses on examining, analysing, understanding, explaining, controlling, and improving the military dimension of international military trade. Specifically, CIIMT delves into managerial questions related to strategic trade control of military and dual-use goods and services.

In alignment with the Netherlands Defence Academy's vision of scientific education, embedded in the reflective practitioners paradigm, the programme equips students with the necessary management and leadership skills to navigate high-tension and high-risk knowledge-intensive environments. The faculty employs the reflective practitioners paradigm to refer to critical thinking, reflection, and Bildung that characterize its thinking doers, known as Thinking Soldiers, whether at the academic Bachelor's or Master's level.

Given the complexity of international trade in military and dual-use goods and technologies, the MSc programme on CIIMT provides a comprehensive understanding of the legal, economic, and ethical aspects of this field. It offers students a multidisciplinary perspective, enabling them to address the challenges and opportunities arising from international military trade.

The programme is designed to meet the needs of professionals working in the defence industry, government agencies, international organizations, and academia. It provides a solid foundation in compliance and integrity, enabling students to contribute to the development and implementation of effective policies and practices in this field.

In conclusion, the Netherlands Defence Academy's Faculty of Military Sciences MSc programme on CIIMT offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and addressing the complex challenges of Compliance and Integrity in International Military Trade. By integrating practice-based and scientific-based knowledge, the programme equips students with the skills and knowledge needed to contribute to the development of a more responsible and sustainable international military trade ecosystem.

Weight: 498g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789462654730
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022