Great Power Antinomies | Phenomenal World

The problem is not border-crossings of advanced technology; it is an enduring politics that delimits the coordination of research, investment, and shared reward on the boundaries of the nation-state. To sober minds, a different system is farce.

The politics of export controls, like many features of industrial policy, is about whose priorities get to stand in as the “national interest.” Where big business and national defense diverge, which gets first claim to the extravagant powers of the state? If nothing else, fluctuating chip controls hint at what years ago seemed unspeakable: a malleability of national security, once ironclad, as new ventures come into conflict with tactics of strategic exclusion.

always bet on neocons, smh