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1 i (2001)

handle is hein.amenin/aeiabzy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SAFEGUARDING DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY, ENABLING COMMERCE SAFEGUARDING IDEFENSE TECHNOLOGY, SETH CROPSEY Denying critical military technology to potential adversaries is as E N AB LIN G C O M M ER CE important to America's security today as it was during the cold war, but the export control regimen designed for the cold war must be updated to take account of the quickened pace of technological change and globalization since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Sweeping change is needed, writes AEI resident fellow Richard N. Perle in his extensive introduction to this study Export controls must be focused more narrowly on technologies that are not already generally available around the world, while restrictions should be lifted from technolo- gies such as computing that require freedom to flourish and provide the United States both military and general economic benefits. Unfortunately, purchased and stolen U.S. technology has accele- rated the military development of hostile nations and nonstate actors. We have already seen evidence, says author Seth Cropsey, of what mischief the wicked, armed with the terrible, can cause. Our most C important failures to guard our military edge involve China, a nation whose role in weapons proliferation means U.S. technology of mass destruction may be transferred to rogue states or terrorists. SETH CROPSEY is a director with the government affairs division of Greenberg Traurig. An officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, his past government service includes serving as deputy undersecretary of the navy and assistant to the secretary of defense. INTERNATIONAL SECURITY/ INTERNATIONAL TRADE $10.00 AE1 ' ISBN 0,4477lY15 1000 American Enterprise Institute510 for Public Policy Research 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington 'D C 20036 1 9 780844 771588 SETHCROSE

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