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Tightening Your Grip : The Unintended Consequences Of Export Control Policies, Keon C. Weigold
Tightening Your Grip : The Unintended Consequences Of Export Control Policies, Keon C. Weigold
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation examines the effects that policies instituted to restrict the diffusion of technology between countries have on the development of technology and international relations. Diffusion restrictions such as export controls or strategic trade controls are often instituted for the purpose of increasing the national security of the implementing country. However, this project theorizes that these types of restrictions can have unforeseen effects on the level of technological development in the implementing country and other countries around the world. The implementing country will see a decrease in their relative level of technological development while other countries around the world will …
Economic Sanctions And Opportunism, Keith A. Preble
Economic Sanctions And Opportunism, Keith A. Preble
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Sanctions busting refers to instances where third-party states increase their material support for states targeted by economic sanctions by increasing trade as well as foreign aid and investment, which, in turn, minimize the economic costs that sanctions imposed on target states. This concept privileges the sender and contributes to the “sender bias” inherent in the literature on economic sanctions. My dissertation instead argues that the terms sanctions opportunism may better reflect the nature of the processes at work when third-party states engage in sanctions busting either for commercial profit or as a “black knight” (or a combination of them both). …