export compliance management seminar 31 may 2012: the changing context of export controls
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Professor Taylor - Royal United Services InstituteTRANSCRIPT
Professor Trevor Taylor
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Tel: +44 7818 444350
2 May 2012
The changing context of export controls
The purposes of export controls
To restrict the accelerated acquisition of military capabilities by
other governments
hostile
unaligned/neutral
friendly
To direct and constrain the behaviour of other governments
To promote domestic economic advantage
The current situation
The weapons of mass effect dimension
no major player with an interest in proliferation
the disruption of the desperate (North Korea, Pakistan,
non-state actors)
increasing problems of controlling ‘old’ knowledge
Small arms
multiple suppliers
post-conflict supplies
the black market
Libyan anti-air missiles?
The current situation
Advanced conventional arms
governments involved have effective export control
systems
US as the driving force and the centrality of ITAR
For the UK
The cost, inconvenience and periodic pettiness of
ITAR implementation
The absence of reciprocity
The changing context
Exports’
growing
importance
Arms Trade
Treaty
drive
90% of
global R&D
as ‘civil’
Operations
not nuclear
deterrence
Supply
chain
implications ITAR-free
as an
asset
European
harmonisation
& integration
US
bilateralism
Needs of
defence MNCs
Conventional arms
export controls
Conclusion and the future
Export controls, high level political attention and the US
political system
The stagnation of reform efforts
The readiness of the UK political class to build awareness of
and/or accept dependence on the US for military capability?
No clear sense: US or Europe
Clear policy ambition
The Prime Minister in the US, Japan, Indonesia and Burma