Beyond 'Fortress America' National Security Controls on Science and Technology in a Globalized World (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix G: Possible Topics for Future Research
Appendix G: Possible Topics for Future Research
Pages 123-126
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Current multilateral export control regimes are legacy agreements based on Cold War threats. Specifically, these regimes are built around the assumption of unanimity among participating countries, a coherent enemy with e asily predicted technological shortcomings, and technology bases for commerce and defense that are predominantly separate rather than inter connected.
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strategy of keeping secrets during the Cold War as a "hermetic seal" model: denying "technology to others by seeking to put an impermeable barrier around the American defense technology base." In a globalized world, he explains, militarily critical technology advances occur "outside the barrier as well as inside" and therefore it is no longer in the U.S. interest to try to build a hermetic seal.
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What are the critical technologies that have global supply chains? How dependent is the United States on the foreign components in critical technologies?
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