Losing Controls: How U.S. Export Restrictions Jeopardize National Security and Harm Competitiveness.
Since the early days of the cold war, the United States has limited the export of certain advanced technologies and the sharing of sensitive scientific and technical data with foreign nationals. Under particular circumstances, export controls are still a necessary and useful instrument of U.S. poli...
| Publicado en: | Foreign Affairs Vol. 88; no. 6; pp. 11 - 19 |
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Foreign Affairs
November/December 2009
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| Sumario: | Since the early days of the cold war, the United States has limited the export of certain advanced technologies and the sharing of sensitive scientific and technical data with foreign nationals. Under particular circumstances, export controls are still a necessary and useful instrument of U.S. policy. Policymakers must abandon the idea that the United States can remain a fortress and that it can engage in technology denial without enduring significant costs to its prosperity and national security, however. If export controls are not more narrowly defined and carefully targeted, they will increasingly do more harm than good. |
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