Center for International Trade & Security

Upcoming Events

Export Control Academy
CITS announces the Fall/Winter 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 and week two covering Licensing and Enforcement. The Fall/Winter Academy will be held November 10-22. The November session of the Export Control Academy will take place in the Holiday Inn, Athens GA. Please follow the links below for the agenda, course curriculum, registration, and logistics information. For more information, please contact Dr. Seema Gahlaut .

CITS News

Dr. Igor Khripunov and Nicolas N. Fernandez publish on Russia's closed nuclear cities

"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. 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.”

CITS Director Gary Bertsch publishes on Chinese export controls and compliance

“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 efforts of Chinese industries to overcome challenges surrounding internal compliance procedures and comprehensive export controls.

CITS Graduate Research Associate Bryan Early wins prestigious fellowship

Bryan R. Early, a CITS Graduate Research Associate and Ph.D. candidate in International Affairs, was accepted into the fellowship program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Early, who has conducted work on nonproliferation export controls and strategic trade in the Middle East and Central Asia, is the second Belfer Fellow selected from CITS in the past two years. The Center’s previous Belfer Fellow, Matthew Fuhrmann, will soon complete his fellowship and join 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 >>

Collaborations

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CITS and CFAU (外交学院)
China Foreign Affairs University The Foreign Affairs University was founded in 1955 and is affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (CFAU) in Beijing is developing courses in nonproliferation with the assistance of CITS graduate research associate Judith Norton, who will be in China through August 2008 to participate in CITS China outreach efforts.

CITS work in China is generously supported
by the Ford and MacArthur Foundations.

Korea Institute for Defense Analyses Scholar at CITS
Dr. Nam Sung Han, Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses KIDA is a government-funded, public research institute that addresses a wide range of defense issues concerning the Korean peninsula and beyond. (KIDA), will spend a year at CITS conducting research on the arms trade, nonproliferation and strategic trade controls. Dr. Han's areas of research include defense industrial and acquisition policy, international defense collaboration, and export controls. Please contact Dr. Scott Jones for inquiries.