Arming Asia: Technonationalism and its Impact on Local Defense Industries

This book aims to examine defense industrialization in several leading arms-producing states in Asia - China, India, Japan and South Korea - in order to decipher if autarky or self-sufficiency in armaments production, remains to be an adequate strategy for the task of developing and manufacturing next-generation weapon systems.

Author: Richard Bitzinger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/09/2017
Pages: 154
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781138892552

About the Author

Richard A. Bitzinger is Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is the author of Towards a Brave New Arms Industry? (Oxford University Press, 2003), "Come the Revolution: Transforming the Asia-Pacific's Militaries," Naval War College Review (Fall 2005), Transforming the U.S. Military: Implications for the Asia-Pacific (ASPI, December 2006), and "Military Modernization in the Asia-Pacific: Assessing New Capabilities," Asia's Rising Power (NBR, 2010). He is also the editor of The Modern Defense Industry: Political, Economic and Technological Issues (Praeger, 2009) and Emerging Critical Technologies and their Impact on Asian-Pacific Security (Palgrave, 2016)