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Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations

Almost all technology is dual use to some degree: it has both civilian and military applications. This duality of technology presents a challenge not by its very existence but rather through the ways it alters information constraints on the design of arms control institutions.

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Jane Vaynman

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Nonresident Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program

Tristan Volpe is a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and assistant professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School.

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Tristan Volpe
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