The Highest Stakes The Economic Foundations of the Next Security System

by Sandholtz, Wayne; Borrus, Michael; Zysman, John; Conca, Ken; Stowsky, Jay; Vogel, Steven; Weber, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780195070354
• ISBN10: 0195070356
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-08-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Will markets, investment, and technology--rather than tanks and missiles--be the key elements in the new world order? When politics catches up with the global whirlwind of shifting economic capabilities, the international system will look very different than how it does today. This book explores how the momentous dislocations of economic power in the world--the might of Asia, the unification of Europe, the relative decline of the United States--will reshape global security issues. The authors explain power and interests are changing and how the loss of industrial and technological leadership is undermining the exercise of American power. They demonstrate how these changes may presage an entirely new era that would reconceive the very nature of security, redefine the international power game, and resituate its players. This volume first sets the stakes--drawing the links between economic capacities and security. Then the players are covered, detailing the relative positions of Asia, Europe, and United States. The book concludes with a warning that the emerging distribution of economic capabilities does not insure a natural extension of the present international security arrangement. At least two other directions are possible, each implying not only new security concerns at home, but a transformation in the international security system as a whole.

Table of Contents

The Stakes
Prologue	p. 3
Industrial Competitiveness and American National Security	p. 7
The Players
The Power behind "Spin-Ons": The Military Implications of Japan's Commercial Technology	p. 55
Europe's Emergence as a Global Protagonist	p. 81
From Spin-Off to Spin-On: Redefining the Military's Role in American Technology Development	p. 114
Third World Military Industrialization and the Evolving Security System	p. 141
The Changing Game
The Risk That Mercantilism Will Define the Next Security System	p. 167
Epilogue	p. 197
Notes	p. 207
Index	p. 251
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