Finding Common Ground U.S. Export Controls in a Changed Global Environment (1991) / Chapter Skim
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convened a special panel to determine whether U.S. national security interests were being compromised by the open communication of the results of basic research.
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The composition of the panel was the result of a careful search by the presidents of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering designed to ensure a panel with balance, depth of expertise, and objectivity. The panel included many individuals who have had substantial experience in government at the most senior levels pertaining to national security affairs, a number of others who have held senior posts in or contributed advice to the intelligence community, and still others who possess substantial legal expertise from work on strategic trade issues.
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consider various existing and alternative conceptual approaches to the design of national security export controls, including methodologies for determining which end products and technologies are likely to make a significant difference in the military capabilities of controlled countries; (2) develop a set of dynamic and implementable principles for determining which technologies should be subject to control; (3)
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The panel also held discussions with representatives of all the federal agencies involved directly in the formulation or implementation of national security export control policy (and related topics) namely, the Departments of Defense, Commerce, State, Treasury (U.S.
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On the one hand, it is impossible to predict with certainty the pe~anence or eventual success of the democratization process in the East European countries or of glasnost, perestroika, and other politico-military changes in the Soviet Union. On the other hand, it is equally impossible to ignore these new realities, or the new and growing threats from nontraditional sources, given that they condition the need for and design of national security export controls.
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· Economic and technological impact of export controls The Allen report was concerned exclusively with the impact of export controls on the United States and other non-Communist countries. Although that remains a primary focus of the current study, the dynamic political situation in Eastern Europe and recent progress on arms control negotiations make the situation today vastly more complicated.
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National Security Export Controls and Global Economic Competition (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1987)
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