Panel on the Impact of National Security Controls on International Technology Transfer & Engineering, and Public Policy Committee on Science 
Balancing the National Interest [PDF ebook] 
U.S. National Security Export Controls and Global Economic Competition

The U.S. national security export controls systemwhich was instituted to impede Soviet acquisition of high technology from the Westis both necessary and appropriate. Balancing the National Interest provides a thorough analysis of this controls system, examining the current system of laws, regulations, international agreements, and organizations that control the international transfer of technology through industrial channels. Foreign Affairs calls it "the best on the subject to have been published in the 40 years that the United States has exercised controls on exports that might add to Soviet power."