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 ...

The Pentagon is considering doing away with two combatant commands—and no longer calling them combatant commands. Defense News (“DoD Weighs Major COCOM Realignment“): The Pentagon is considering a ...

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.

The Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, known as "CoCom," was a creature of the Cold War. It was created in 1949 to coordinate the embargo of militarily useful technology that had been ...

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 ...