Historical analysis reveals how Cold War export control regimes fostered unintended technological connections, highlighting the paradox of regulatory disconnectivity.
Key Points
Investigate how Cold War multilateral export controls designed to restrict technology transfers paradoxically facilitated new forms of transnational connection and circulation.
Historical policy analysis of West German trade interactions under ChinCom in the 1950s and CoCom in the 1980s.
Case study evaluation of aerospace firm Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm to trace technological circulation under regulatory restrictions.
Embargo enforcement in the 1950s led directly to alternative transnational re-export pathways and unintended commercial links.
Regulatory negotiations within CoCom during the 1980s transformed export controls into mechanisms that enabled, redirected, and politically obscured strategic technological flows.