Article | REF: AG1325 V1

Dual-Use Goods – Regulations and management

Author: Dominique WERBROUCK

Publication date: April 10, 2017

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1. International control regimes

1.1 Origins

In the second half of the 20th century, the world saw the development of increasingly powerful weapons with ever greater ranges: conventional weapons, but above all nuclear, radiological, bacteriological and chemical weapons, often grouped together under the name of "weapons of mass destruction".

While the initial concern of states was to preserve their military supremacy, it soon became clear that it was imperative to prevent these weapons from falling into the hands of hostile states or "non-state" actors, and to banish some of them.

As a result, groups and organizations have been set up between states to combat the proliferation of these weapons and the dissemination of so-called "dual-use" technologies, i.e. technologies...

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