Executive Summary - The Desirability and Feasibility of Strategic Trade Controls on Emerging Technologies

2 Executive Summary | The Desirability and Feasibility of Strategic Trade Controls | CISSM APPROACHES TO Policymakers must decide whether and how to regulate the development, sale, MANAGING DUAL- and use of emerging technologies so the security benefits outweigh the economic, USE TECHNOLOGY technological, and political costs. [...] Another facilities needed, and the tacit knowledge common source of disagreement within the or human resources required to United States and among groups of countries ultimately develop and operate the working together to control the spread and technology. [...] The more difficult and use of dangerous technologies has been expensive it is to acquire the necessary whether the rules should be legally binding, facilities and expertise, the higher the or voluntary principles and best practices. [...] affects what mix of government, private sector, and civil society actors in which The chart below depicts a basic assessment of different countries count as critical the desirability and feasibility of denial-based stakeholders for the design and strategic trade controls on the five emerging implementation of effective mechanisms technologies studied. [...] respect to the scope of policies considered 7 Executive Summary | The Desirability and Feasibility of Strategic Trade Controls | CISSM and the assessment of the technical traits Conversely, our analysis finds that the only considered, we indicate their locations with technology that could be both feasibly the specific scope of trade control policies controlled and for which controls may be and bas.