ABSTRACT
International crisis in the proliferation arena has opened multilateral export controls to intense scrutiny in recent years. Consider the following quote from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohammed ElBaradei:
Serious observers and non-governmental organizations have taken similar aim at export controls, recommending in some cases a total overhaul of the supplier regimes to remedy identified process, political or legal failures. This paper suggests a less ambitious – and more practicable – approach that sets a twin goal of tightening existing supplier restrictions and rules, and ensuring that states exercise their domestic responsibility to implement and enforce fully those restrictions and rules.
