Filling the weapons procurement gap in the Indo-Pacific: South Korean arms export to Indonesia and India

Park, Soul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6692-9080 and Thakkar, Chirayu (2024) Filling the weapons procurement gap in the Indo-Pacific: South Korean arms export to Indonesia and India. Contemporary Security Policy. ISSN 1352-3260

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Abstract

How do second-tier suppliers adapt to defense-industrial globalization and expand their weapons sales in different regions? We offer a demand-side explanation of arms procurement. As the first-tier suppliers focus on advanced power projection weapons, two types of qualitative structural gaps emerge in the global arms market either due to excessive superiority or utter neglect of certain platforms. Consequently, buyer states turn to weapon systems produced by second-tier suppliers as they are proximate to their qualitative needs in terms of strategic/technical and doctrinal requirements. Through case studies of ROK’s weapons sales to India and Indonesia, we show how a second-tier supplier is able to outbid its first-tier counterparts on qualitative grounds to fill the structural gap left by global power disparity.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	indo-pacific,weapons procurement,south korea,defense-industrial globalization,political science and international relations ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3320
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Critical Global Politics
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	03 Dec 2024 01:36
Last Modified:	19 Dec 2024 01:14
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/97878
DOI:	10.1080/13523260.2024.2441065

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