Export Control Academy
CITS announces the Summer 2008 session of the Export Control Academy.  The Academy consists of two week-long topical sessions with week one covering Export Control Policy and Regimes from August 11-15 and week two covering Licensing and Enforcement from August 18-22.  Please follow the links below for more information on the agenda, course curriculum, registration, schedule, and logistics.  The Fall 2008 session of the Academy will take place Nov 10-22. For more information, please contact Dr. Seema Gahlaut .

Summer Nonproliferation Institute - "Preparing the Next Generation for Teaching, Research, and Public Service in Nonproliferation Policy"
The fifth in the series of highly successful teaching Summer Nonproliferation Institutes will be held August 10-13, 2008 on the historic campus of the University of Georgia. The objective of the Institute is to provide graduate students and young faculty from a variety of disciplines with the knowledge and tools to develop and offer nonproliferation courses in their curriculum. For more information please contact Dr. Dmitriy Nikonov at (706) 542-2985. For registration, fill out the attached registration form. More

"Open Sesame: Risk From Russia's Closed Nuclear Cities” by CITS Associate Director Igor Khripunov and Graduate Research Associate Nicolas N. Fernandez will appear in the August 2008 issue of Jane's Intelligence Review. The article focuses on the precarious state of the secretive, closed nuclear cities that serve as the backbone of the Russian nuclear weapons complex and addresses some potential solutions to the safety and security problems that are plaguing these cities. Mr. Fernandez was also recently published in the Spring 2008 issue of the Journal of Nuclear Materials Management with his article entitled, “High-Risk Radioactive Sources: Cradle-to-Grave Physical Protection.”

“Challenge and Change in Chinese Export Controls and Compliance,” by CITS Director Gary K. Bertsch appears in the Spring 2008 edition of China Currents, a publication of the China Research Center.  The article addresses the challenges that Chinese industries face and their progressive efforts to overcome those challenges with their government partners in developing robust internal compliance procedures and comprehensive export controls.

Bryan R. Early, a Ph.D. graduate research associate with the Center for International Trade and Security, has won a fellowship with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.  Mr. Early, who has conducted work on nonproliferation export controls and strategic trade in the Middle East and Central Asia, will be the second Belfer Fellow selected from CITS in the past two years.  The previous Belfer Fellow, Matthew Fuhrmann, will be joining the faculty of the University of South Carolina as an assistant professor in January 2009.

CITS Director Dr. Gary Bertsch interviewed on China Radio International regarding the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue
Dr. Bertsch was invited to provide the American perspective regarding the opening of the 4th round of the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue. The dialogue between the U.S. and China took place on June 17th. Dr. Bertsch was interviewed for China Radio International's "People in the Know" Program. Listen >>