Technology and the Tyranny of Export Controls

Technology and the Tyranny of Export Controls

Author: Stuart MacDonald

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-30

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1349108995

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This is a study of export controls, high technology and information and US controls. It looks at the impact of export controls on the United States, on the Allies and on the Soviet bloc.


Export Controls in Transition

Export Controls in Transition

Author: Gary K. Bertsch

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780822311911

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Like many cold war artifacts, the West's export control policies and institutions are being reevaluated after the tumult in the communist world at the end of the 1980s. Policymakers and scholars are being forced to reexamine the premises of export control policy and the very concept of export controls as a tool of national security and foreign policy. This volume brings together expert scholars and government officials who provide contrasting perspectives and address the prospects for export controls. The contributors discuss the role and function of export control policies from a variety of perspectives--security, commerce, diplomacy, the European region, and that of the newly industrialized countries. Among the topics covered are the problems the United States and the Western export regime will face in the 1990s in light of changing international political alliances and dependencies, in defining strategic exports, in enforcing export controls, and the role of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls. Contributors. Sumner Benson, Beverly Crawford, Richard t. Cupitt, Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, Paul Freedenberg, Martin J. Hillenbrand, Hanns-Dieter Jacobsen, Bruce W. Jentleson, Kevin J. Lasher, William J. Long, Janne Haaland Matlary, Jere W. Morehead, Henry R. Nau, Han S. Park, Kevin F. F. Quigley, Alen B. Sherr, Christine Westbrook


Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America

Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America

Author: Mario Daniels

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2022-04-25

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 0226817539

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The first historical study of export control regulations as a tool for the sharing and withholding of knowledge. In this groundbreaking book, Mario Daniels and John Krige set out to show the enormous political relevance that export control regulations have had for American debates about national security, foreign policy, and trade policy since 1945. Indeed, they argue that from the 1940s to today the issue of how to control the transnational movement of information has been central to the thinking and actions of the guardians of the American national security state. The expansion of control over knowledge and know-how is apparent from the increasingly systematic inclusion of universities and research institutions into a system that in the 1950s and 1960s mainly targeted business activities. As this book vividly reveals, classification was not the only—and not even the most important—regulatory instrument that came into being in the postwar era.


Information for Innovation

Information for Innovation

Author: Stuart Macdonald

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 1998-04-09

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0191584150

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Information is not taken seriously. Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and particularly about information technology, but little about information itself. If these are important, then so is information. But information is not as other goods: it has some peculiar characteristics. It cannot be displayed for sale without giving it away in the process. Sold, it goes to the buyer but still remains with the seller. Buying entails expressing demand in ignorance for buyers who do not know just what it is that they do not know. Such characteristics have long been recognised by economists, but it is not generally economists who have most to say about the importance of information. This privilege is exercised by senior managers, who speak passionately about knowledge-based, learning organizations; by politicians and public servants, anxious to compensate with policy and programme for the information failure of organization and market; and by specialists in telecommunications and information technology, bent on adding value to what they treat as just a commodity. All are particularly enthusiastic about the innovation which springs from information. Information usually requires new information. Finding, acquiring, and mixing this new information with that already in use presents problems, not least because complex information transactions are required rather than simple information transfer. Solutions can be devised, but only by accommodating the characteristics of information. This book contrasts the way innovation is normally regarded in a variety of areas from eighteenth-century agriculture to high technology, from technology transfer to industrial espionage, from corporate strategy to patents and independent inventors with how it appears from what is termed an 'information perspective', that is one that puts information first. The results are intriguing, suggesting that radically different approaches to innovation (and organization) should be considered.


International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime

International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime

Author: Keith E. Maskus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-06-08

Total Pages: 952

ISBN-13: 9781139444330

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Distinguished economists, political scientists, and legal experts discuss the implications of the increasingly globalized protection of intellectual property rights for the ability of countries to provide their citizens with such important public goods as basic research, education, public health, and environmental protection. Such items increasingly depend on the exercise of private rights over technical inputs and information goods, which could usher in a brave new world of accelerating technological innovation. However, higher and more harmonized levels of international intellectual property rights could also throw up high roadblocks in the path of follow-on innovation, competition and the attainment of social objectives. It is at best unclear who represents the public interest in negotiating forums dominated by powerful knowledge cartels. This is the first book to assess the public processes and inputs that an emerging transnational system of innovation will need to promote technical progress, economic growth and welfare for all participants.


After The Revolutions

After The Revolutions

Author: Gary K. Bertsch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0429715021

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This book presents various aspects of the changing nature of East-West relations and attempts to anticipate future trends in East-West trade and technology transfer, dealing with the evolution of national approaches towards trade and technology transfer.


The International Law on Foreign Investment

The International Law on Foreign Investment

Author: M. Sornarajah

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-08-18

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9780521465281

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The author examines different techniques adopted by States for attracting foreign investment and for ensuring that foreign investment serves their economic objectives.


States, Firms, and Power

States, Firms, and Power

Author: George E. Shambaugh

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1999-08-12

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1438419503

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States, Firms, and Power uncovers the workings behind frequently maligned and often misapplied economic sanctions and incentives that have emerged as the United States policy tools of choice. Shambaugh uses a theory of economic statecraft to analyze the sources and limitations of power relations between states and firms. The book features a statistical analysis of 66 sanction episodes since 1949, including detailed case studies of U.S. sanctions in the energy, computer, and telecommunications industries in the 1980s, and current U.S. sanctions against foreign companies conducting business in Cuba, Iran, and Libya. Understanding when and why economic statecraft works provides insights into the nature and exercise of power in world politics that can, in turn, guide policy-makers in their use of sanctions and incentives against friends, foes, and firms.