Semester | Fall Semester, 2020 | ||
Department | Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies MA Program, First Year Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies PhD Program, First Year | ||
Course Name | Nonproliferation Policies and Goals - Implementation through Strategic Trade Controls | ||
Instructor | KIM MI-YONG | ||
Credit | 3.0 | ||
Course Type | Elective | ||
Prerequisite |
Course Objective |
Course Description |
Course Schedule |
Week 1: Introduction of class, expectations and goals Reading: W. Seth Carus, Defining “Weapons of Mass Destruction”, CSWMD Occasional Paper 8, 1 January 2012: https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/717937/defining-weapons-of-mass-destruction-revised/
John P. Caves and W. Seth Carus, The Future of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Their Nature and Role in 2030, CSWMD Occasional Paper 10, 1 June 2014 https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/717932/the-future-of-weapons-of-mass-destruction-their-nature-and-role-in-2030/
Sibylle Bauer, For the bathroom or the missile factory? Why dual-use trade controls matter, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 12 December 2012 https://sipri.org/commentary/essay/2012/bathroom-or-missile-factory-why-dual-use-trade-controls-matter
Week 2: Multilateral nonproliferation regimes: missiles; chemical and biological weapons; dual-use national security items; nuclear weapons
Reading:
General Accountability Office: Nonproliferation: Strategy needed to Strengthen Multilateral Export Control Regimes, October 2001, pp. 1 - 30 https://www.gao.gov/assets/240/236191.pdf
The Once and Future Multilateral Export Control Regimes: Innovate or Die, Strategic Trade Review, Winter/Spring 2019 pp. 55 - 76 https://strategictraderesearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Strategic-Trade-Review-WinterSpring-2019.pdf
Week 3: Multilateral nonproliferation regimes - Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC), Missile Technology Control Regime, Australia Group, Wassenaar Arrangement; select individual presentation on a WMD program
Reading:
Inventory of International nonproliferation organizations and Regimes https://www.nti.org/learn/treaties-and-regimes/regimes/
Missile Technology Control Regime https://mtcr.info
Australia Group https://australiagroup.org
Wassenaar Arrangment https://wassenaar.org
Joshua H. Pollack, Miles Pomper, Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, Joy Nasr, and Dave Schmerler, Options for a Verifiable Freeze on North Korea’s Missile Programs CNS Occasional Paper # 46, April 2019 https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/options_for_a_verifiable_freeze.pdf
Week 4: Multilateral nonproliferation regimes: Nuclear Suppliers Group; Zangger Committee
Reading:
Inventory of International nonproliferation organizations and Regimes https://www.nti.org/learn/treaties-and-regimes/regimes/
Nuclear Suppliers Group https://nuclearsupliersgroup.org
Future Directions in the DPRK’s Nuclear Weapons Program: Three Scenarios for 2020 https://www.38north.org/2015/02/dalbright022615/
Implications for US Extended Deterrence and Assurance in East Asia, November 22, 2015 https://www.38north.org/2015/11/nukefuture112015/
Iran nuclear program https://www.nti.org/learn/countries/iran/nuclear/
Report to Congress on Status of Iran’s Nuclear Program April 4, 2019, pp. 1- 47 https://news.usni.org/2019/04/04/report-congress-status-irans-nuclear-program
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) at a Glance https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/JCPOA-at-a-glance
Dan Smith, The US withdrawal from the Iran deal: One year on, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute https://sipri.org/commentary/expert-comment/2019/us-withdrawal-iran-deal-one-year
Week 5: Individual in-class presentations; roundtable discussion of presentations
Week 6: Individual in-class presentations; roundtable discussion of presentations
Week 7: Strategic trade controls - adopting multilateral controls into national strategic trade controls - development of national systems; form group and select countries for presentation
Reading:
United Nations Security Council Resolution1540 Committee https://www.un.org/en/sc/1540/resolutions-committee-reports-and-SC-briefings/security-council-resolutions.shtml
How to Attract the Best and Brightest to Strategic Trade Careers, Strategic Trade Review, Winter/Spring 2019 pp. 93 - 96 https://strategictraderesearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Strategic-Trade-Review-WinterSpring-2019.pdf
The Importance of Building Legislative and Regulatory Capacity for Strategic Trade Management, Strategic Trade Review, Winter 2019 pp. 67 - 74 https://strategictraderesearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Strategic-Trade-Review-WinterSpring-2019.pdf
Week 8: Basic elements to developing national strategic trade control systems; examples derived from systems within Asia Pacific region;
The Center for Information on Security Trade Controls (CISTEC) Export Control Model of Japan: Role, Utility, and Management, Strategic Trade Review, Winter/Spring 2019 pp. 77 - 92 https://strategictraderesearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Strategic-Trade-Review-WinterSpring-2019.pdf
Frauke Renz, “An Additional Tool for Economic Integration? How Coordination on Strategic Trade Controls Can Promote Regional Cooperation within ASEAN,” Strategic Trade Review, Autumn 2016, pp. 85 - 102 https://strategictraderesearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/STR_03.pdf
Week 9: Export control systems within Asia Pacific region
Reading:
“The Center for Information on Security Trade Controls (CISTEC) Export Control Model of Japan: Role, Utility, and Management,” Strategic Trade Review, Winter/Spring 2019 pp. 77 - 92 https://strategictraderesearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Strategic-Trade-Review-WinterSpring-2019.pdf
David Santoro and Carl Baker, “Special Section: Trade Controls in Southeast Asia,” Strategic Trade Review, Spring 2016, pp. 72 - 139 https://strategictraderesearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/STR_02.pdf
“Nonproliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” A Memorandum from the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) NO. 22, September 2012 http://www.cscap.org/uploads/docs/Memorandums/CSCAP%20Memorandum%20No%2022%20--%20Nonproliferation%20of%20Weapons%20of%20Mass%20Destruction.pdf
“Guidelines for Managing Trade of Strategic Goods,” A Memorandum from the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) NO. 14, March 2009 http://www.cscap.org/uploads/docs/Memorandums/CSCAP%20Memorandum%20No%2014%20--%20Guidelines%20for%20Managing%20Trade%20of%20Strategic%20Goods.pdf
Week 10: Group presentation on strategic trade control system of a country in the region
Week 11: Group presentation on strategic trade control system of a country in the region
Week 12: Sanctions
Reading:
John Park, Jim Walsh, “Stopping North Korea, Inc.: Sanctions Effectiveness and Unintended Consequences,” MIT, 2016 https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/Stopping%20North%20Korea%20Inc%20Park%20and%20Walsh%20.pdf
PODCAST: “Do Sanctions Work,” Tell Me More, National Public Radio 2013. Run time: 11minutes https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=246733368
PODCAST: Jarrett Blanc, “Sanctioning Iran,” DiploPod, 2018. Run time: 21 minutes https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/08/09/sanctioning-iran-pub-77016
Jonathan Masters, “What Are Economic Sanctions?” Council on Foreign Relations, Backgrounder, August 2017 https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/Stopping%20North%20Korea%20Inc%20Park%20and%20Walsh%20.pdf
Week 13: Proliferation financing
Reading:
Review modules under “What is Proliferation Financing?” and “How Can Proliferation Financing be Identified?” https://proliferationfinance.org
Togzhan Kassenova, “Challenges with Implementing Proliferation Financing Controls: How Export Controls Can Help.” World ECR: The Journal of Export Controls and Sanctions, May 2018 https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/05/30/challenges-with-implementing-proliferation-financing-controls-how-export-controls-can-help-pub-76476
Jonathan Brewer, “The Financing of WMD Proliferation: Conducting Risk Assessments,” Center for New American Studies, October 2018 https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/the-financing-of-wmd-proliferation
Week 14: Emerging technologies; academic research/collaboration; intangible technology transfer; “deemed export”
Reading:
Kolja Brockmann, “3D-printable guns and why export controls on technical data matter,” SIPRI, August 2018 https://sipri.org/commentary/blog/2018/3d-printable-guns-and-why-export-controls-technical-data-matter
Kolja Brockmann, Sibylle Bauer, Vincent Boulanin, “Emerging technologies pose challenges to the control of biological weapons, new SIPRI report,” SIPRI, March 2019 https://www.sipri.org/publications/2019/other-publications/bio-plus-x-arms-control-and-convergence-biology-and-emerging-technologies
“Review of Controls for Certain Emerging Technologies,” Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S.. Department of Commerce, November 2018 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-controls-for-certain-emerging-technologies
Ian J. Stewart, “The Contribution of Intangible Technology Controls in Controlling the Spread of Strategic Technologies,” STR, Autumn 2015, pp. 41 - 55 https://strategictraderesearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/STR_01.pdf
Deemed Export https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Deemed_Export
Week 15: Emerging technologies; academic research/collaboration; intangible technology transfer; “deemed export” - Continued
Week 16: Presentations of paper thesis
Week 17: Research day
Week 18: Final papers due |
Teaching Methods |
Teaching Assistant |
none. |
Requirement/Grading |
20% class participation; 25% one individual presentation; 25% group presentation; 30% written essay of no more than 5 pages. In addition, two or three unresolved issues/questions from the reading material should be presented for discussion for each class. |
Textbook & Reference |
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