Cooperation in a Time of Backlash: The Future of International Joint Development

This is a momentous time for multinational acquisition projects. Populist backlash in multiple countries demonstrate increasing skepticism towards expanding alliance cooperation as an end in itself. At the same time, one of history’s largest international joint development efforts, the F-35, is ramping up production. CSIS plans for a discussion that brings a range of perspectives to the questions of what could, and should, come next. 

CSIS's Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group will also be releasing a report that focuses on several case studies of international joint development projects and the best practices gleaned from these cases. 

CSIS Experts

Andrew Philip Hunter

Director, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group and Senior Fellow, International Security Program

Gregory Sanders

Deputy Director and Fellow, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group