| Semester | Spring Semester, 2025 | ||
| Department | International Master's Program in International Studies, First Year International Master's Program in International Studies, Second Year | ||
| Course Name | Intersection of International Business and National Security: Export Controls, Sanctions, ForeignDirect Investments, and Supply Chain | ||
| Instructor | KIM MI-YONG | ||
| Credit | 3.0 | ||
| Course Type | Elective | ||
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| 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; nuclear weapons; dual-use national security items; select individual presentation on a WMD program. Reading: General Accountability Office: Nonproliferation: Strategy needed to Strengthen Multilateral Export Control Regimes, October 2002, pp. 1 – 30, https://www.gao.gov/assets/240/236191.pdf Michael D. Beck and Scott A. Jones, 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 Michael D. Beck and Seema Gahlaut, Creating a New Multilateral Export Control Regime, Arms Control Today, Volume 33, April 2003, https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2003-04/features/creating-new-multilateral-export-control-regime Challenges to Multilateral Export Controls: The case for Inter-regime Dialogue and Coordination, SIPRI, December 2019, https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2019-12/1912_regime_dialogue_brockmann.pdf https://cset.georgetown.edu/event/a-new-export-control-regime-for-the-21st-century/
Week 3: Multilateral nonproliferation regimes - delivery systems: Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC); Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). Guest speaker Reading: Inventory of International nonproliferation organizations and Regimes, HCOC, https://www.nti.org/learn/treaties-and-regimes/hague-code-conduct-against-ballistic-missile-proliferation-hcoc/ Missile Technology Control Regime https://mtcr.info 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 Current U.S. Missile Defense Programs at a Glance, Arms Control Association, August 2019, https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/usmissiledefense U.S. and Allied Ballistic Missile Defenses in the Asia-Pacific Region, Arms Control Association, January 2019, https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/us-allied-ballistic-missile-defenses-asia-pacific-region https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile-maps-infographics/ https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-missile-tests-military-capabilities
Week 4: Multilateral nonproliferation regimes - nuclear, chemical and biological weapons: Nuclear Suppliers Group; Zangger Committee; Australia Group; Guest speaker Reading: Read Country Reports for U.S., Russia, Pakistan, India, France, UK, North Korea, Iran, and China https://www.nti.org/learn Nuclear Suppliers Group https://nuclearsupliersgroup.org Implications for US Extended Deterrence and Assurance in East Asia, November 22, 2015 https://www.38north.org/2015/11/nukefuture112015/ U.S. Nuclear and Extended Deterrence: Considerations and Challenges, May 2010, https://www.brookings.edu/research/u-s-nuclear-and-extended-deterrence-considerations-and-challenges/ - skim The Unforeseen Consequences of Extended Deterrence: Moral Hazard in a Nuclear Client State, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022002717729025 - optional Australia Group https://australiagroup.org https://www.opcw.org/ “About Us” link https://www.un.org/disarmament/biological-weapons/ “about bwc” link https://www.gppi.net/media/GPPi_Schneider_Luetkefend_2019_Nowhere_to_Hide_Web.pdf Read pp 1-14. Skim the rest
Week 5: Conventional weapons proliferation: Wassenaar Arrangement; Guest Speaker Readings Wassenaar Arrangement https://wassenaar.org https://www.wassenaar.org/app/uploads/2019/12/WA-DOC-19-PUB-005-Public-Docs-Vol-III-Comp.-of-Best-Practice-Documents-Dec.-2019.pdf skim Scott Jones, Think twice before bringing back the COCOM export control regime, April 2021, https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2021/04/09/think-twice-before-bringing-back-the-cocom-export-control-regime/ The Best of ChinaPower: Xi Jinping’s Military-Civil Fusion Project: A Conversation with Greg Levesque https://www.csis.org/node/61453 (Podcast) Elsa B. Kania and Lorand Laskai, Myths and Realities of China’s Military-Civil Fusion Strategy, January 2021, https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/myths-and-realities-of-chinas-military-civil-fusion-strategyRichard A. Bitzinger, Yoram Evron, and Zi Yang, China’s Military-Civil Fusion Strategy: Development, Procurement, and Secrecy, January 2021, https://www.nbr.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/publications/ap16-1_china_mcf_rt_jan2021.pdf, pp 1-44NP Singh, Jan-Mar 2022, http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/military-civil-fusion-strategy-of-china/ https://www.stimson.org/event/next-steps-on-post-delivery-controls-for-international-arms-transfers/ - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmYIL6xTVRE (Video presentation of Changing State-Business Relations Under the US-China Tech War)
Week 6: Individual presentations on a WMD program; select group presentation on a strategic trade control system in the Asia Pacific region;
Week 7: Strategic trade controls - adopting multilateral controls into national strategic trade controls - development of national systems (possible research day or holiday – class and associated readings will be adjusted accordingly) Reading: United Nations Security Council Resolution1540 Committee https://www.un.org/en/sc/1540/resolutions-committee-reports-and-SC-briefings/security-council-resolutions.shtml United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 Implementation: More of the Same or Brave New World https://strategictraderesearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Strategic-Trade-Review-Winter-2019.pdf 2021-2022 Comprehensive Review of UNSCR 1540 https://www.un.org/en/sc/1540/documents/Background%20Document-1540%20Committee%20Open%20Consultations%20CR%202021-22.pdf
Week 8: (research day)
Week 9: Basic elements to developing national strategic trade control systems; Export control systems within Asia Pacific region; Guest speaker
Reading: 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 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 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 Elements of an Effective Export Control System, pdf file
Week 10: Sanctions; human rights and other non-national security/WMD based controls; Guest speaker 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 read pp 1-30, skim rest PODCAST: “Do Sanctions Work,” Tell Me More, National Public Radio 2013. Run time: 11minutes https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=246733368 https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2020/oct/11/chilling-effect-us-sanctions-iran skim related materials links Jonathan Masters, “What Are Economic Sanctions?” Council on Foreign Relations, Backgrounder, August 2019 https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-are-economic-sanctions United States General Accounting Office “Economic Sanctions: Effectiveness as Tools of Foreign Policy” February 1992 https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-92-106.pdf (skim) The Treasury 2021 Sanctions Review https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Treasury-2021-sanctions-review.pdf Are sanctions actually hurting Russia's economy? Here's what you need to know, July 2022, https://www.npr.org/2022/07/01/1109033582/are-sanctions-actually-hurting-russias-economy-heres-what-you-need-to-know (Podcast) Gerard DiPippo, Strangling the Bear? Sanctions on Russia after Four Months, June 2022, https://www.csis.org/analysis/strangling-bear-sanctions-russia-after-four-months
Week 11: Sanctions continued
Week 12: Group presentations; guest speaker
Week 13: Group presentations continued; Export control compliance from industry perspective – Guest speaker
Week 14: Supply chain security; national security review of foreign investments; Guest speaker Reading: Supply chain security Building Resilient Supply Chains, Revitalizing American Manufacturing, and Fostering Broad-based Growth July 2021 https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/100-day-supply-chain-review-report.pdf Read pp.1 – 18, 21-27, 53-80. Skim pp 27-53. Bradley Martin, “Supply Chain Disruptions: The Risks and Consequences,” November 2021, https://www.rand.org/blog/2021/11/supply-chain-disruptions-the-risks-and-consequences.html https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/taiwans-role-us-semiconductor-supply-chain-network https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/taiwans-role-us-semiconductor-supply-chain-network (Video)
FDI World Investment Report 2022, https://unctad.org/webflyer/world-investment-report-2022 https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11334 An FDI Investigation, https://www.csis.org/node/54674 (Podcast)
Week 15: Emerging/foundational technologies; Reading: 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 Scott A. Jones, “Trading Emerging Technologies: Export Controls Meet Reality,” Brill.com, February 2021, https://brill.com/view/journals/shrs/aop/article-10.1163-18750230-31010004/article-10.1163-18750230-31010004.xml?language=en 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 Emerging Technologies Developments in the Context of Dual-Use Export Controls https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2021/september/tradoc_159791.pdf EU-US Trade and Technology Council (europa.eu) (Review all links on left-hand side and documents)
Week 16: Academic research/collaboration; intangible technology transfer; technology transfers to foreign nationals (deemed export); Guest speaker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhOpIq4oPFc (Video) https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Deemed_Export Catalogue of Case Studies on Intangible Technology Transfers from Universities and Research Institutes, September 2020, https://www.kcl.ac.uk/csss/assets/itt-case-studies-2020.pdf https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/file/1107256/download https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/02/1040656/china-initative-us-justice-department/ https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32021H1700&qid=1671944227540&from=EN pages 24 – 36, appendices 1, 2, 3, and 4. Skim the rest. https://research.umbc.edu/export-control-case-studies/ (new for spring 2024)
Week 17: “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”: Wrap-up
Week 18: Final papers due
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| Requirement/Grading |
20% class participation; 20% one individual presentation; 20% group presentation; 40% written essay between 7 -10 pages. In addition, two or three unresolved issues/questions from the reading material should be presented for discussion for each class. |
| Textbook & Reference |
Topical reading list will be provided prior to commencement of class. Guest speakers will be incorporated throughout the seminar. |
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