Beyond Fortress America National Security Controls On Science And Technology In A Globalized World

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security,Committee on Science, Security, and Prosperity
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309130264

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Beyond 'Fortress America' by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security,Committee on Science, Security, and Prosperity Pdf

The national security controls that regulate access to and export of science and technology are broken. As currently structured, many of these controls undermine our national and homeland security and stifle American engagement in the global economy, and in science and technology. These unintended consequences arise from policies that were crafted for an earlier era. In the name of maintaining superiority, the U.S. now runs the risk of becoming less secure, less competitive and less prosperous. Beyond "Fortress America" provides an account of the costs associated with building walls that hamper our access to global science and technology that dampen our economic potential. The book also makes recommendations to reform the export control process, ensure scientific and technological competitiveness, and improve the non-immigrant visa system that regulates entry into the United States of foreign science and engineering students, scholars, and professionals. Beyond "Fortress America" contains vital information and action items for the President and policy makers that will affect the United States' ability to compete globally. Interested parties-including military personnel, engineers, scientists, professionals, industrialists, and scholars-will find this book a valuable tool for stemming a serious decline affecting broad areas of the nation's security and economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Export controls
ISBN : OCLC:298862550

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Beyond "Fortress America" : National Security Controls on Science and Technology in a Globalized World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Export controls
ISBN : OCLC:298862550

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Beyond "Fortress America" by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Air Force law
ISBN : OSU:32437121941286

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The Air Force Law Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Arms transfers
ISBN : UOM:39015089028628

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The Impact of U.S. Export Controls on National Security, Science and Technological Leadership by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000066761457

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Impacts of U.S. Export Control Policies on Science and Technology Activities and Competitiveness by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007) Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Committee on Homeland Security and Export Controls
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309254472

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Export Control Challenges Associated with Securing the Homeland by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Committee on Homeland Security and Export Controls Pdf

The "homeland" security mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is paradoxical: Its mission space is uniquely focused on the domestic consequences of security threats, but these threats may be international in origin, organization, and implementation. The DHS is responsible for the domestic security implications of threats to the United States posed, in part, through the global networks of which the United States is a part. While the security of the U.S. air transportation network could be increased if it were isolated from connections to the larger international network, doing so would be a highly destructive step for the entire fabric of global commerce and the free movement of people. Instead, the U.S. government, led by DHS, is taking a leadership role in the process of protecting the global networks in which the United States participates. These numerous networks are both real (e.g., civil air transport, international ocean shipping, postal services, international air freight) and virtual (the Internet, international financial payments system), and they have become vital elements of the U.S. economy and civil society. Export Control Challenges Associated with Securing the Homeland found that outdated regulations are not uniquely responsible for the problems that export controls post to DHS, although they are certainly an integral part of the picture. This report also explains that the source of these problems lies within a policy process that has yet to take into account the unique mission of DHS relative to export controls. Export Control Challenges Associated with Securing the Homeland explains the need by the Department of Defense and State to recognize the international nature of DHS's vital statutory mission, the need to further develop internal processes at DHS to meet export control requirements and implement export control policies, as well as the need to reform the export control interagency process in ways that enable DHS to work through the U.S. export control process to cooperate with its foreign counterparts.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Higher Education and Workforce,Committee on Science, Technology, and Law,Committee on Federal Research Regulations and Reporting Requirements: A New Framework for Research Universities in the 21st Century
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309379489

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Optimizing the Nation's Investment in Academic Research by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Higher Education and Workforce,Committee on Science, Technology, and Law,Committee on Federal Research Regulations and Reporting Requirements: A New Framework for Research Universities in the 21st Century Pdf

Research universities are critical contributors to our national research enterprise. They are the principal source of a world-class labor force and fundamental discoveries that enhance our lives and the lives of others around the world. These institutions help to create an educated citizenry capable of making informed and crucial choices as participants in a democratic society. However many are concerned that the unintended cumulative effect of federal regulations undercuts the productivity of the research enterprise and diminishes the return on the federal investment in research. Optimizing the Nation's Investment in Academic Research reviews the regulatory framework as it currently exists, considers specific regulations that have placed undue and often unanticipated burdens on the research enterprise, and reassesses the process by which these regulations are created, reviewed, and retired. This review is critical to strengthen the partnership between the federal government and research institutions, to maximize the creation of new knowledge and products, to provide for the effective training and education of the next generation of scholars and workers, and to optimize the return on the federal investment in research for the benefit of the American people.

Author : Hugo Meijer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190277697

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Trading with the Enemy by Hugo Meijer Pdf

In light of the intertwining logics of military competition and economic interdependence at play in US-China relations, Trading with the Enemy examines how the United States has balanced its potentially conflicting national security and economic interests in its relationship with the People's Republic of China (PRC). To do so, Hugo Meijer investigates a strategically sensitive yet under-explored facet of US-China relations: the making of American export control policy on military-related technology transfers to China since 1979. Trading with the Enemy is the first monograph on this dimension of the US-China relationship in the post-Cold War. Based on 199 interviews, declassified documents, and diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks, two major findings emerge from this book. First, the US is no longer able to apply a strategy of military/technology containment of China in the same way it did with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. This is because of the erosion of its capacity to restrict the transfer of military-related technology to the PRC. Secondly, a growing number of actors in Washington have reassessed the nexus between national security and economic interests at stake in the US-China relationship - by moving beyond the Cold War trade-off between the two - in order to maintain American military preeminence vis-à-vis its strategic rivals. By focusing on how states manage the heterogeneous and potentially competing security and economic interests at stake in a bilateral relationship, this book seeks to shed light on the evolving character of interstate rivalry in a globalized economy, where rivals in the military realm are also economically interdependent.

Author : Frederick A. O. Schwarz
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620970522

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Democracy in the Dark by Frederick A. O. Schwarz Pdf

“A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in” (The Washington Post). From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government’s modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief counsel to the US Church Committee on Intelligence—which uncovered the FBI’s effort to push Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide; the CIA’s enlistment of the Mafia to try to kill Fidel Castro; and the NSA’s thirty-year program to get copies of all telegrams leaving the United States—uses examples ranging from the dropping of the first atomic bomb and the Cuban Missile Crisis to Iran–Contra and 9/11 to illuminate this central question: How much secrecy does good governance require? Schwarz argues that while some control of information is necessary, governments tend to fall prey to a culture of secrecy that is ultimately not just hazardous to democracy but antithetical to it. This history provides the essential context to recent cases from Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden. Democracy in the Dark is a natural companion to Schwarz’s Unchecked and Unbalanced, cowritten with Aziz Huq, which plumbed the power of the executive branch—a power that often depends on and derives from the use of secrecy. “[An] important new book . . . Carefully researched, engagingly written stories of government secrecy gone amiss.” —The American Prospect

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Smashbooks
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Toward a Theory of Spacepower: Selected Essays by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000066764885

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Export Controls on Satellite Technology by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Pdf

Author : Herbert N. Foerstel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313362354

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Toxic Mix? by Herbert N. Foerstel Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the contentious relationship between the White House and the scientific community from the FDR administration to the Obama administration. Toxic Mix?: A Handbook of Science and Politics takes a topic very much in the center of public debate in the last decade and places it in a revealing historical context. It follows the often contentious relationship of science and politics from the FDR era to the current Obama administration, highlighting the many highly charged moments when the two were in conflict. Toxic Mix? ranges across the major areas of scientific inquiry with public policy implications, including atomic energy, space science, public health, stem cells, sexual reproduction, environmental science, global warming, and evolution, to examine important events where political imperatives and scientific research were at odds. In addition, the book looks at another important area where politics and science are at cross purposes; immigration—as many of our most accomplished degree earners are foreign born and are unable to stay and work in the United States. A final chapter analyzes the attempts by the early Obama administration to build public policy that embraces science rather than manipulates it.

Author : Michael Mineiro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789400725676

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Space Technology Export Controls and International Cooperation in Outer Space by Michael Mineiro Pdf

Export controls definitively impact international cooperation in outer space. Civil and commercial space actors that engage in international endeavors must comply with space technology export controls. In the general discourse, members of the civil and commercial space community have an understanding of their domestic export control regime. However, a careful reading of the literature on space technology export controls reveals that certain questions relevant to international engagements have not been identified or answered. What is the legal-political origin of space technology export controls? How do they relate to the current international legal structure? What steps can be taken to evolve our current unilateral paradigm of space technology within the context of peaceful exploration and use of outer space? In this book, these and other relevant questions on space technology export controls are identified and assessed through an insightful case-study of the U.S. commercial communication export control regime. The findings of this case-study are used in an international legal-political analysis of international space law, public international law, and international cooperation. Breaking new ground in international legal theory, a self-justified security dilemma that is manifest in international law is identified and explained as the origin for the current paradigm of space technology export controls.

Author : William C. Hannas,Didi Kirsten Tatlow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000191615

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China's Quest for Foreign Technology by William C. Hannas,Didi Kirsten Tatlow Pdf

This book analyzes China’s foreign technology acquisition activity and how this has helped its rapid rise to superpower status. Since 1949, China has operated a vast and unique system of foreign technology spotting and transfer aimed at accelerating civilian and military development, reducing the cost of basic research, and shoring up its power domestically and abroad—without running the political risks borne by liberal societies as a basis for their creative developments. While discounted in some circles as derivative and consigned to perpetual catch-up mode, China’s "hybrid" system of legal, illegal, and extralegal import of foreign technology, combined with its indigenous efforts, is, the authors believe, enormously effective and must be taken seriously. Accordingly, in this volume, 17 international specialists combine their scholarship to portray the system’s structure and functioning in heretofore unseen detail, using primary Chinese sources to demonstrate the perniciousness of the problem in a manner not likely to be controverted. The book concludes with a series of recommendations culled from the authors’ interactions with experts worldwide. This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese politics, US foreign policy, intelligence studies, science and technology studies, and International Relations in general.