The container ship Maersk Emerald is unloaded at the Port of Oakland, Calif., on July 12, 2018. (Ben Margot/AP) This week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted the Strategic Competition Act ...

A multilateral partnership and a product of the Cold War, COCOM has long been superseded by the successor body, the Wassenaar Arrangement, supposedly to be a non-ideological alternative endeavoring to ...

As noted in previous chapters, the effectiveness of multilateral export controls depends on a number of conditions, including the membership, the goals and targets, and the mechanisms of the regime.

Also known as a unified combatant command, or COCOM, these commands are the highest possible echelon of military command and are overseen by what’s called the Unified Command Plan, or UCP. The UCP ...

refers to Section 5(k) of the Export Administration Act, which requires preferential licensing treatment ("5(k) benefits") for countries that promise to adopt the "five essential elements" defined by ...