ITAR: Problems and Perspectives.

The article offers information about the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which was established in 1978 in the context of the Cold War in the U.S. defense industry. It notes that multiple reform attempts and persistent criticism failed to improve overly complex, overloaded and dated procedure and become necessary to alter and improve the functioning of defense export control procedures. It also serves dual and potential contradictory purpose.