Research Domain

Export Controls and Technology Security

Research on controlled technology, jurisdictional classification, and the transfer pathways that regulation is designed to interrupt.

ITAR · EAR · BIS Entity List · ECRA · FDPR

Domain Statement

What this domain covers

Export control turns on precise facts: the technical characteristics of an item, who can access it, and which jurisdictions data moves through. Research in this domain examines how classification decisions are constructed, where deemed-export exposure arises, and how restricted-party and ownership rules propagate through a supply base.

Analytic questions

  • Is an item, technology, or data flow controlled, and under which authority?
  • How is deemed-export risk assessed where foreign-national access exists?
  • How do restricted-party and ownership rules propagate through supply relationships?
  • Which technology-transfer pathways does the current control architecture fail to reach?

Methods Applied

  • Jurisdictional classification analysis
  • Ownership-rule tracing
  • Technology pathway mapping
  • Authority and precedent review

Related Advisory

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Publications

Published work in this domain

Sanctir edition in development

Research in this domain currently exists within the WP-2026 corpus, published independently under CC BY 4.0. A curated Sanctir edition — conformed to the published analytic standard, individually indexed, and citable by DOI — is in preparation. Publications will be listed here as they are released.

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