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'''Export controls''' are part of the [[grand strategy]] of nations, variously limiting the provision of certain militarily critical, [[dual-use]] goods or technologies, or other exports whose withholding constitutes a form of [[economic warfare]]. | '''Export controls''' are part of the [[grand strategy]] of nations, variously limiting the provision of certain militarily critical, [[dual-use]] goods or technologies, or other exports whose withholding constitutes a form of [[economic warfare]]. They may be used to influence national behavior, as with the attempt to change policies of [[apartheid]]-era [[South Africa]] or Iraq under [[Saddam Hussein]]. | ||
Revision as of 12:56, 12 November 2009
Export controls are part of the grand strategy of nations, variously limiting the provision of certain militarily critical, dual-use goods or technologies, or other exports whose withholding constitutes a form of economic warfare. They may be used to influence national behavior, as with the attempt to change policies of apartheid-era South Africa or Iraq under Saddam Hussein.