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Updated: Nov 15, 2012

Robert Shaw

Research Associate and Export Control Instructor

Activities

Robert Shaw is Research Associate and Export Control Instructor with the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He is also an adjunct professor for the Monterey Institute, co-teaching a graduate course on strategic trade controls and nonproliferation.

Areas of Research

• Industry compliance and nonproliferation export controls
• US export control reform
• National export control systems and international cooperation
• Private sector/government cooperation in global nonproliferation efforts
• Illicit WMD-related procurement networks

Background

Prior to joining CNS in 2010, Robert spent over a decade working in Toshiba America, Inc.'s Procurement & Export Division, specializing in export control compliance and international procurement. He has applied his private-sector experience to research and articles examining the role of industry in global nonproliferation and export control efforts, the challenge of illicit WMD-related procurement networks, and reform of the US export control system. He has been invited to share an industry practitioner's view at multiple nonproliferation forums, including events organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the US Department of State's Office of Export Control Cooperation, and the University of Georgia's Center for International Trade and Security.

Robert has also served as an International Trade Officer with the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency.

Education

• MA, International Studies, University of South Carolina
• BA, Journalism and Foreign Service, Baylor University
• Certificate in Nonproliferation Studies, MIIS

Bibliography

• Sweeping Up Dirty Bombs: A Shift from Normative to Pro-Active Measures
  Robert Shaw, Bill Richardson, Charles Streeper, Public Interest Report, Fall 2011, Federation of American Scientists.
• Uranium Tailings in Central Asia: The Case of the Kyrgyz Republic
  Robert Shaw and Paula Humphrey, Nuclear Threat Initiative: Issues and Analysis, 16 October 2009.
• Uranium Tailings in Kyrgyzstan: Catalyst for Cooperation and Confidence-Building?
  The Nonproliferation Review (Spring 2003), pp 147-154.
• Kazakhstan's Proposal to Initiate Commercial Imports of Radioactive Waste
  Nuclear Threat Initiative: Issues and Analysis, 27 January 2003.
• Problema vvoza radioaktivnykh otkhodov v Kazakhstan: vzglyad so storony
  Problemy Nerasprostraneniya, (Almaty: 2002, No. 1), pp. 23-28.