Determinants of a Strategy for International Participation in an SPS Program

摘要

Foreign participation in SPS development and operations would enhance its global potential and could contribute to the improvement of international relations. International participation depends on US recognition of the technical and institutional barriers to foreign participation, such as rectenna land requirements and the limitations on the sharing of technology and manufacturing responsibilities. The complexity of international issues arises from significant numbers of actors involved in the international areas. Politically and economically, the US is more likely to initiate contact with other industrialized market economies and the space powers therein (e.g. England, West Germany and Japan), rather than the centrally planned economies. Developing countries, whose economies have been decimated by dependence on non-renewable fuels, and who have exercised a growing influence in matters of resource utilization, would also take an interest in the SPS. Further research is required to understand foreign national interests with respect to the SPS and how they could complement US national interests in a cooperative venture. (ERA citation 06:012129)