Strategische Autonomie oder Insel der Importsubstitution im Neoliberalismus? Über die politökonomische Bedeutung der türkischen Rüstungsindustrie

Axel Gehring

doi:10.32387/prokla.v50i201.1918

Authors

Axel Gehring https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3287-694X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v50i201.1918

Keywords:

Arament Industry, Turkey, Military–industrial complex, Industrial Policy

Abstract

Turkeys desire for a higher strategic autonomy is driving the persistent development of an indigenous defense industry. At the same time high expectations are placed into the industry’s capacity to export arms, but the local industry is forced to import the most modern components. This contribution debates the tension between strategic autonomy and economic ratio within the context of the historical and contemporary conjunctures and conflicts of Turkish Neoliberalism. Furthermore, it asks whether it can be evaluated as an ascending military-industrial-complex and if that concept enables to grasp the economic relations of a state in the capitalist semi-periphery.

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