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2 The Need for Export Controls in a Changed Global Environment
Pages 12-17

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... The report, however, extends the reach of national security export controls to include broader threats to national security, such as the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, biological, and advanced conventional weapons and missile delivery systems. Control of exports related to some of these threats has traditionally been dealt with through foreign policy export controls.
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From page 13...
... Thus, even though Soviet military force deployments have not changed as dramatically as other operational and organizational factors, and the Soviet strategic capability remains largely unchanged, the West has an opportunity to influence democratic forces and the evolving military posture in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Indeed, it now appears to be in the interest of the West to encourage investment, aid, and technology transfer to the East European countries in order to accelerate their integration into the Western economic system.
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From page 14...
... national security has also changed. Years of staggering trade deficits, declining market shares and competitiveness in world trade, and loss of technological leadership in many fields have forced the United States to contemplate the prospect of a changed position in the global order.
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From page 15...
... POLICY* Export controls, sharply reduced in number and fully multilateral, are a necessary and appropriate policy instrument for responding to any remaining threat posed to the United States by the Soviet Union and the other former WTO countries, but a new policy approach must be developed if export controls are to remain an effective policy instrument *
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From page 16...
... the pursuit of important political and economic objectives, such as further democratization and the development of market economies in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; and (c) address flexibly new types and sources of national security challenges, such as those derived from growing proliferation threats or the threat of terrorism, as they emerge.
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From page 17...
... · Improving the structure and administration of export controls to increase efficiency and lessen adverse effects on the private sector. NOTE Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Vintage Books, 1989)
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