Balancing the National Interest: U. S. National Security Export Controls and Global Economic Competition

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 Interestprovides 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 Affairscalls 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."National Academy of Sciences Staff is the author of 'Balancing the National Interest: U. S. National Security Export Controls and Global Economic Competition' with ISBN 9780309037389 and ISBN 0309037387.