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Unit 12Export Controls
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  1. 0. Introduction
  2. 2. Multilateral instruments and standards for arms export controls
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Export Controls

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  1. 1. Introduction

  2. 2. Multilateral instruments and standards for arms export controls

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    Niklas Schoernig

    Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

    Dr. Niklas Schörnig has been a senior research fellow with the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany, since 2005. Prior to joining PRIF as a research fellow, Dr. Schörnig was a Ph.D. candidate at PRIF and wrote his dissertation on American defense industrial policy during the 1990s. He received his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from Goethe-University, Frankfurt, in 2005. Since 2005 he has been a regular visiting lecturer at Goethe-University, Frankfurt. In 2012 he received the “Best Article Award 2006-2011” of the German Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (Journal of International Relations).

    His current research at PRIF focuses, inter alia, on current trends in warfare, military robotics, military missions of Western democracies and Australian foreign and security policy. His most recent publications include inter alia: “Killer Drones – The Silver Bullet of Democratic Warfare?” In: Security Dialogue, 2012, 43: 4, 353-370 (with Frank Sauer); “The Militant Face of Democracy. Liberal Forces for Good“, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (Editor, with Anna Geis and Harald Müller); and „Automatisierte Kriegsführung – Wie viel Entscheidungsraum bleibt dem Menschen?“ [Automated Warfare – what is left for the human to decide?] In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 2014: 35-37, 27-34.

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Niklas Schoernig, "Export Controls" in EUNPDC eLearning, ed. Niklas Schörnig, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Available at https://eunpdc-elearning.netlify.app/lu-12/, last modified 30 September 2024

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