SITC Policy Briefs

2013

Rich Region, Strong States: The Political Economy of Security in Asia

I. The Economic Underpinnings of Military Power in the Asia-Pacific Region Over the Next Decade

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 2013-1: Asian Defense Spending Trends
David J. Berteau and Joachim Hofbauer

II. The Military-Security Underpinnings of Economic Dynamics in Asia

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 2013-2: The East Asian Political Economy: Stylized Facts and Security Debates
Stephan Haggard

III. Domestic Dynamics

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 2013-3: Domestic Dynamics
T.J. Pempel

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 2013-4: Can China’s Political System Sustain Its Peaceful Rise?
Susan L. Shirk

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 2013-5: Drafting the U.S. Defense Budget: Cost Versus Risk
Tom Mahnken

IV. Key Trends in the Economic Geography of Security in Asia

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 2013-6: China’s Political Uses of Sea Power
Toshi Yoshihara

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 2013-7: Assessing Future Flashpoints in the South China Sea
Brad Kaplan

V. Trends in the Military-Security Dimensions of Industrialization, Technology Development, and the Changing Locus of Innovation in Asia

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 2013-8: Japan in Asia’s Space Race: Directions and Implications
Saadia M. Pekkanen

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 2013-9: The Third Wave: Innovation and Strategic Military Capacity in the Future
Peter Cowhey

2012

Changing Military Dynamics in East Asia: Grand Strategic and Technological Drivers and the Implications for U.S. and Regional Security

I. Evolving Grand Strategies

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 1: The United States’ Grand Strategy in the Asia-Pacific Region
Thomas G. Mahnken

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 2: Changing Military Dynamics in East Asia: Australia’s Evolving Grand Strategy
Andrew Shearer

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 3: Grand Strategies on the Korean Peninsula
Stephan Haggard

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 4: A Dynamic Defense Force for Japan
Sugio Takahashi

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 5: India’s Grand Strategy: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Timothy D. Hoyt

II. Technological Drivers

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 6: Japan’s Defense Industry in the Northeast Asia Strategic Landscape
Sugio Takahashi

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 7: Southeast Asian Approaches to Military Technology and Defense Science and Technology
Richard A. Bitzinger

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 8: Regional Macro-Trends in the Development of Military Technology and Defense Science and Technology
Richard A. Bitzinger

III. Implications

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 9: Through the Lens of Distance: Understanding and Responding to China’s “Ripples of Capability”
Andrew S. Erickson

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 10:Explaining Varying Asian Responses to China: Strategic Evolution in the Cases of Japan, Korea, and Thailand
John F. Fei

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 11: Japan’s China Strategy
Sugio Takahashi

SITC-NWC Policy Brief 12: AirSea Battle and Escalation Risks
Joshua Rovner

2011

New Perspectives on Assessing the Chinese Defense Economy: 2011 Industry Overview and Policy Briefs

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Front Matter and Introduction

I. New Perspectives on the Workings of the Chinese Defense Economy

Policy Brief 19. Rejuvenating the Chinese Defense Economy: Present Developments and Future Trends
Tai Ming Cheung

Policy Brief 20. Industrial Innovation in China’s Defense Research, Development and Acquisition Process
Tai Ming Cheung

Policy Brief 21. China’s Military Representatives: Striving Toward Professional Contracting and Procurement
Susan M. Puska, Joe McReynolds, and Debra Geary

Policy Brief 22. China’s Defense High-Tech Leadership: Implications for S&T Innovation
Eric Hagt

Policy Brief 23. China’s Defense Innovation System: Making the Wheels Spin
Kathleen A. Walsh and Ed Francis

Policy Brief 24. Civil–Military Integration Efforts in China
David Yang

II. Case Study of the Chinese Space and Missile Industry

Policy Brief 25. The Chinese Missile Industry
Mark Stokes

Policy Brief 26. Organization as Innovation: China’s Human Spaceflight Program’s Efforts to Instill a Quality Management System
Kevin Pollpeter

Policy Brief 27. Frameworks for Analyzing Chinese Defense and Military Innovation
Tai Ming Cheung, Thomas G. Mahnken, and Andrew L. Ross

Policy Brief 28. Locating China’s Place in the Global Defense Economy
Richard Bitzinger, Michael Raska, Collin Koh Swee Lean, and Kelvin Wong Ka Weng

Policy Brief 29. China’s Rise as a Global S&T Power and China–EU Cooperation
Oliver Bräuner

2010

Policy Briefs on the Rise of the Chinese Defense Economy: Innovation Potential, Industry Performance, and Regional Comparisons

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Introduction

I. Understanding Military Innovation and Its Application to China's Emergence as a Major Defense Power

Policy Brief 1. On Military Innovation: Toward an Analytical Framework
Andrew Ross

Policy Brief 2. Understanding Military Innovation: Chinese Defense S&T in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
Thomas Mahnken

Policy Brief 3. The Chinese Defense Economy’s Long March From Imitation to Innovation
Tai Ming Cheung

Policy Brief 4. Does Doctrine Drive Technology or Does Technology Drive Doctrine?
Dennis Blasko

II. Assessing the State of China's Defense Technological and Industrial Base

Policy Brief 5. Contemporary Chinese Defense Industry Reform and Civil–Military Integration in Three Key Organizations
Edward Francis and Susan M. Puska

Policy Brief 6. China’s Defense Electronics Industry: Innovation, Adaptation, and Espionage
James Mulvenon and Matthew Luce

Policy Brief 7. China’s Shipbuilding Industry Development: A Boost for Naval Ship Production?
Gabe Collins

Policy Brief 8. China’s Ordnance Industry Under Modernization
Arthur Ding

Policy Brief 9. Trends in the Development of China’s Aviation Industry
Alison Peet and Samm Tyroler-Cooper

Policy Brief 10. China’s Space Industry in 2009: A Year in Review
Kevin Pollpeter

Policy Brief 11. Spin-on for the Renaissance? The Current State of China’s Nuclear Industry
Jingdong Yuan

III. China's Defense Technological Rise in Comparative Perspective: The Role of Defense Industries in Other Asia-Pacific Countries

Policy Brief 12. China’s Defense Technology and Industrial Base in a Regional Context
Richard Bitzinger

Policy Brief 13. The Slow Death of Japanese Techno-Nationalism? Comparative Lessons for China’s Future Defense Production
Christopher Hughes

Policy Brief 14. Defense Innovation and Industrialization in South Korea
Chung-In Moon and Jae Ok Paek

Policy Brief 15. The Current State of European Union–China High-Tech Cooperation
May-Britt Stumbaum and Oliver Bräuner

Research