Finding Common Ground: U.S. Export Controls in a Changed Global Environment

National Research Council, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy

ISBN 10: 0309043921 / ISBN 13: 9780309043922

Published by National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1991

About this Item

24 cm, 390, illus., diagrams, references, index, usual library markings.

Seller Inventory # 38723

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Finding Common Ground: U.S. Export Controls in a Changed Global Environment
• Publisher: National Academy Press, Washington, DC
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309043921
• ISBN 13: 9780309043922
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First? Edition. First? Printing.
• Condition: good, ex-lib.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cold War
  • Nonproliferation
  • Military Technology
  • Technology Transfer
  • Arms Control

About this title

Synopsis

Protecting U.S. security by controlling technology export has long been a major issue. But the threat of the Soviet sphere is rapidly being superseded by state-sponsored terrorism; nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile proliferation; and other critical security factors.

This volume provides a policy outline and specific steps for an urgently needed revamping of U.S. and multilateral export controls.

It presents the latest information on these and many other pressing issues:

• The successes and failures of U.S. export controls, including a look at U.S. laws, regulations, and export licensing; U.S. participation in international agencies; and the role of industry.
• The effects of export controls on industry.
• The growing threat of "proliferation" technologies.

World events make this volume indispensable to policymakers, government security agencies, technology exporters, and faculty and students of international affairs.

About the Author

Panel on the Future Design and Implementation of U.S. National Security Export Controls, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine