Study of the Reciprocal Dependence between International Security and International Trade, Protection and Defense

本项目试图探讨国际贸易与国际安全之间的相互关系。研究者发现有必要发展分析的基本框架，因为在这个领域有一些理论工作。他们首先建立了一个模型，将国家安全支出与保护效率低下的国内产业的成本进行比较。这是因为，由于国防支出可能会减少贸易中断的风险，因此，随着安全支出的增加，保护低效率产业的必要性将会减少。因此，必须修改传统的保护辩护论点。第二个模型比较了保护国内产业的成本，为满足可能的贸易中断期间而储存材料的成本以及作为减少贸易中断可能性的方式的安全成本。第三，该项目产生了一个两国安全开支与世界其他地区武器供应的可得性之间的一般平衡模型。第四，研究了两国贸易模式下的国防项目协调。第五，比较了美日两国军队人力资源开发的效果。第六，对保护农业产业的粮食安全论点进行了理论分析。这些是通过这个项目开发的模型的样本。

This project attempts to investigate interrelationship between international trade and international security. The investigators found the need for developing the basic framework of analysis as there are a few theoretical works in this area.They first developed is a model is which the national security expenditures are compared with the cost of protecting inefficient domestic industries. The reason is that as the defense expenditures would possibly reduce the risk of trade disruption and therefore, the need for protection of inefficient industries would be lessened as the security expenditures are increased. Thus the traditional defense argument for protection must be modified.The second model compares costs of protecting domestic industries, the costs of stockpiling material in order to meet the period of possible trade disruptions and the cost of security as the way of reducing possibility of trade disruptions.Thirdly, the project produced a general equilibrium model of two nations security expenditures as a function of availability of arms supply from the rest of the world.Fourth, it investigate coordinating national defense projects in a two country trade model.Fifth, it compares the effects of human resource development in armed forces in the U. S. and Japan.Sixth, it contains a theoretical analysis of food security arguments for protecting agricultural industries.These are samples of the models developed through this project.