At this event, think tank, government, and industry experts will offer their thoughts on how best to reform the export control system so that it can more effectively protect U.S. national security and economic interests.

Following a keynote address by Representative Donald A. Manzullo, panelists examined the Obama administration's plan to reshape the U.S. export-control system.

The general economic "health" of the U.S. manufacturing sector has re-emerged in a Presidential election year. In his 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama announced to Americans "that we have a huge opportunity, at this moment to bring manufacturing back," promising manufacturers special tax reductions and other federal...

How can we reform the legal framework of the U.S. export control system?

There is significant disagreement about the effectiveness of the Obama administration's proposed export control reforms, which casts doubt on whether substantive reform can be achieved in the proposed one-year time frame.

Denying critical technology to potential adversaries is as important to America’s security today as it was during the Cold War. In Safeguarding Defense Technology, Enabling Commerce (AEI Press), Seth Cropsey examines the record of export controls from their origin in the late 1940s to their status in the Clinton administration.

President Obama's speech in Oslo makes sound arguments about the need to use force at times for the purpose of maintaining peace. The problem is, his examples are either simply wrong or, at best, dubious.