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Ko, Kyoungyun (2020) America’s alliance management and military technology transfer policies : the cases of Japan and South Korea in aerospace technology cooperation. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This thesis investigates America’s aerospace technology transfer policies as a critical instrument for managing its weak allies in terms of the US’s strategic goal, namely preserving and maintaining the balance of power at both global and regional levels. This research argues that the US tried to control the level of transferred military technology based on its strategic calculations when they assisted in the development of its client nations’ defence industry, particularly aerospace fields. The rationales of these attempts for managing client nations’ defence industrial capability are (i) encouraging weak partners to participate in collective defence activities and (ii) preventing protected countries from implementing independent foreign and defence policies through the capability of indigenously manufacturing state-of-art class defence asset.
To uncover the causal mechanism of America’s differentiated attitudes on military technology cooperation with its weak allies, this research adopts the concept of ‘regional stability’ as an independent variable and the notion of ‘role expectation’ as an intervening variable by using a theoretical framework of Neoclassical realism. Moreover, this study classifies the patterns of America’s technical assistance into four groups: (i) direct aid, (ii) limited cooperation, (iii) advanced cooperation, and (iv) reciprocal cooperation.
By surveying cases of America’s aerospace technical assistance program through this new analytical framework, this research could clarify the underlying logic of America’s policies about military technology transfer and reveal the causal mechanism of differentiated attitudes toward client nations.
The specific cases this research investigates are the aerospace technological cooperation between the US and its Northeast Asian alliance partners, Japan and the Republic of Korea; within two distinctive historical periods, the 1970s and the 1980s.
Notably, this research deals with both America’s proactive assistance to Japan’s SLVs developments and combat fighters coproduction programs such as F-4, F-15, and F-2, and the US’s limited assistance to ROK’s attempts to SSM development and license and assembly production of jet fighters including F-5, F-4, and F-16.
As brief consequences of this research, in the case of Japan, America’s intentions of transferring cutting-edge combat fighter (F-4EJs in the 1970s, F-15s and F-16 in the 1980s) and SLVs technologies are persuading Tokyo to participate in the defensive missions at the theatre level, such as ASW and AEW, and to prevent them to developing ballistic missiles, respectively. On the contrary, in the example of ROK, although the US provided state-of-the-art class combat fighters including F-4D/E in the 1970s and F-16 in the 1980s in order to increase the deterrent capability of ROK against DPRK, Washington tried to limit the permissions of co-production programs with ROK strictly. Specifically, the ROK’s attempts at developing SSMs were restrained by the US.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | E History America > E151 United States (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations T Technology > T Technology (General) |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Technology transfer -- Japan, Technology transfer -- Korea (South), Technology transfer -- United States, Alliances, Balance of power, United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan, United States -- Foreign relations -- Korea (South), United States -- Military relations -- Japan, United States -- Military relations -- Korea (South) | ||||
Official Date: | August 2020 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Politics and International Studies | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Hughes, Christopher W. | ||||
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Extent: | xviii, 463 leaves : colour illustrations | ||||
Language: | eng |
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