Table of Contents

Preface The National Context: Defense Spending and Conversion Policy in the 1990s The Community Context: Development Interests and Economic Dependency The Military Metropolis: Boosters, Bases, and Shipbuilding in Hampton Roads The New Face of Defense: Systems Engineers, Bureaucrats in Suburban and Northern Virginia Rural Areas and Small Cities: Dependency, Adjustment, and Conversion The State Politics of Defense Restructuring: Adjustment and Resistance Conversion Advocacy in Other States and Localities Transforming the Politics of Defense Conversion

About the Author

JOHN J. ACCORDINO is Associate Professor of Economic Development Policy and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Virginia Commonwealth University./e Among his earlier publications are The United States in the Global Economy: Challenges and Policy Choices and Community-Based Development: An Idea Whose Time has Come. He is a past chair of the American Planning Association's Economic Development Division.

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