Beyond "fortress America"
Subtitle: national security controls on science and technology in a globalized world
By: Committee on Science, Security, and Prosperity [and] Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security Development, Security and Cooperation Policy, and Global Affairs, National Research Council of the National Academies.
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security Development, Security and Cooperation Policy, and Global Affairs.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780309130707; 9780309130271
Subjects: Communication of technical information -- Government policy -- United States; Communication in science -- Government policy -- United States; Technology and state -- United States; Science and state -- United States; National security -- United States; Research -- Government policy -- United States; Export controls -- United States
Description: The national security controls that regulate access to and export of science and technology are broken. As currently structured, many of these controls undermine our national and homeland security and stifle American engagement in the global economy, and in science and technology. These unintended consequences arise from policies that were crafted for an earlier era. In the name of maintaining superiority, the U.S. now runs the risk of becoming less secure, less competitive and less prosperous. [It] provides an account of the costs associated with building walls that hamper our access to global science and technology that dampen our economic potential. The book also makes recommendations to reform the export control process, ensure scientific and technological competitiveness, and improve the non-immigrant visa system that regulates entry into the United States of foreign science and engineering students, scholars, and professionals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.