1st Edition

Comparing Defense Innovation Around the World

Edited By Tai Ming Cheung Copyright 2023
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.