{"id":1072,"date":"2017-09-11T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2020-02-19T17:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T17:02:35","slug":"economic-consequences-of-non-export-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2017\/09\/11\/economic-consequences-of-non-export-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic consequences of non-export control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/staff\/profiles\/maria-garcia-alonso.html\">Dr Maria Garcia-Alonso<\/a>\u00a0was a\u00a0guest lecturer at the Third\u00a0EU Summer University on Strategic Trade Control and Non-Proliferation in\u00a0Alpbach, Austria from 9-16 August. The event was\u00a0part of the EU Partner-to-Partner Export Control\u00a0Programme for dual use goods (<a href=\"https:\/\/export-control.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/\">https:\/\/export-control.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/<\/a>).\u00a0The European Union is a long-standing provider of capacity-building activities aimed at the overall strengthening of export controls worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>In her lecture entitled &#8216;Economic consequences of non-export control&#8217;, Maria highlighted the different objectives of the parties involved in the trading of arms and dual use goods, and illustrated the need for effective and credible\u00a0international co-ordination. She also described some interesting trends regarding the changing nature of trade in these goods and the challenges involved when regulating in a changing technological and security environment.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the event\u00a0explored examples of current international developments and helped to understand emerging issues for strategic export controls such as additive manufacturing, synthetic genomics and drones. In particular, new geopolitical challenges, the current difficult security situation in various regions of the world as well as challenges in enhancing the global governance of export controls on dual use items were touched upon or discussed in greater detail during the sessions. The concerns posed by the present situation in the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea\u00a0were discussed. In this regard, a further fine-tuning of export control modalities was deemed as necessary for deterring or halting the various sources of WMD proliferation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Maria Garcia-Alonso\u00a0was a\u00a0guest lecturer at the Third\u00a0EU Summer University on Strategic Trade Control and Non-Proliferation in\u00a0Alpbach, Austria from 9-16 August. The event was\u00a0part of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2017\/09\/11\/economic-consequences-of-non-export-control\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":1938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,94130,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}