The Wassenaar Arrangement: On Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies

Tags: 1990s Export Controls International / National Security

Published: February 2020

URL: https://www.wassenaar.org/

Abstract: On July 26, 2015, The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies published an article on the history of the Wassenaar Arrangement. After the Cold War, the COCOM export control regime was disbanded. The former members of COCOM recognized “a need to establish a new arrangement to deal with risks to regional and international security and stability related to the spread of conventional weapons and dual-use goods and technologies.” From November 1993 to December 1996, the former members of COCOM worked with each other and new member states to develop a different consensus for export controls.