Balancing the national interest U.S. national security export controls and global economic competition

• Main Author: Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.). Panel on the Impact of National Security Controls on International Technology Transfer
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, D.C National Academy Press 1987
• Subjects: Export controls; Export controls > United States; Export restrictions; Foreign economic relations; Government policy; International competition; National security; Technology transfer; Technology transfer > Government policy > United States; Trade barriers; U.S.A; United States; United States > Foreign economic relations; United States > National security; United States; National security
• ISBN: 9780309037389; 0309037387

The U.S. national security export controls system--which was instituted to impede Soviet acquisition of high technology from the West--is both necessary and appropriate. Balancing the National Interest provides a thorough analysis of this controls system, examining the current system of laws, regulations, international agreements, and organizations that control the international transfer of technology through industrial channels. Foreign Affairs calls it "the best on the subject to have been published in the 40 years that the United States has exercised controls on exports that might add to Soviet power."