1. A High-Tech Alliance: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S.-Japan Science and Technology Collaboration
- Author:
- James L. Schoff, Douglas E. Rake, and Joshua Levy
- Publication Date:
- 07-2021
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Abstract:
- In both Japan and the United States, there is a growing recognition that national security and alliance security involve more than just military concerns and extend to new technology areas and their economic effects. Looming over the two allies is a wide-ranging question of how to enable greater science and technology (S&T) research collaboration for commercial and defense purposes, involving such fields as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum information science (QIS), cybersecurity, and space utilization. Competing domestic political and economic considerations in each country make this a particularly complex challenge for policymakers, who can be expected to treat the international sharing or sale of assorted technologies differently. Still, there is little doubt that it is in the mutual interest of Japan and the United States to harmonize their approaches and find acceptable ways to enable deeper and broader S&T collaboration—and to do so expeditiously.
- Topic:
- Science and Technology, Bilateral Relations, Alliance, and Collaboration
- Political Geography:
- Japan, Asia, North America, and United States of America