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 ...

A multilateral partnership and a product of the Cold War, COCOM has long been superseded by the successor body, the Wassenaar Arrangement, supposedly to be a non-ideological alternative endeavoring to ...

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.

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 ...