Gaining a decisive technological edge is a never-ending pursuit for defense establishments and the countries they protect. Intensifying geo-strategic and geo-economic rivalry among major powers, especially the U.S. and China, and the global technology revolution occurring in the civilian and military domains promise to reshape the nature and distribution of global power.
This book examines the state of global defense innovation in a select number of countries chosen because they are representative of the diverse make-up of the global defense innovation community. These include small countries with advanced defense innovation capabilities (Israel and Singapore), closed authoritarian powers (North Korea and Russia), large catch-up states (China and India), and advanced large powers (U.S.).
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies.
Introduction: A conceptual framework of defence innovation
Tai Ming Cheung
1. The defense innovation machine: Why the U.S. will remain on the cutting edge
Eugene Gholz and Harvey M. Sapolsky
2. China’s quest for quantum advantage—Strategic and defense innovation at a new frontier
Elsa B. Kania
3. Defense innovation in Russia in the 2010s
Vasilii Kashin
4. Examining India’s defence innovation performance
Laxman Kumar Behera
5. North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs: Foreign absorption and domestic innovation
Stephan Haggard and Tai Ming Cheung
6. Military-technological innovation in small states: The cases of Israel and Singapore
Richard A. Bitzinger
Biography
Tai Ming Cheung is Director of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Professor in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, USA. Cheung’s research focuses on China's efforts to become a world-class science and technology power, and the relationship between geo-economics, innovation, and national security.
