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Dr. Lawrence Scheinman

Distinguished Professor of the CNS office in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Lawrence Scheinman is a Distinguished Professor of the CNS office in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Dr. Scheinman was the Assistant Director for Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). Prior to that, Dr. Scheinman served as Counselor for Nonproliferation in the Department of Energy, on leave from his position as Professor of Government (International Law and Relations), and Associate Director, Peace Studies Program at Cornell University. He has previously been a tenured member of the faculties of political science at UCLA and the University of Michigan from which he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. He also holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and is a member of the Bar of the State of New York.

Dr. Scheinman has been involved in nuclear-related matters as an academic and as a government and international organization official for 25 years: as Senior Policy Analyst and Head of the International Policy Planning Office in the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (1976); as Principal Deputy to the Deputy Undersecretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology (and Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary, 1977-1979); and as a special assistant to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1986-1988 and 1991-1992). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, of the Executive Committee of the Programme for the Promotion of Non-Proliferation, of the Washington Council on Non-Proliferation, and of the Advisory Committee of the Atlantic Council of the United States Non-Proliferation Project. He has held grants from the National Science Foundation and from the Social Science Research Council and has held the Visiting Research Scholar position at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as well as being a Fellow of the Harvard Center for International Affairs. He is included in American Men of Science and in Who's Who in the East.

Dr. Scheinman has published extensively in the fields of nonproliferation, arms control and international nuclear cooperation. His books and monographs include Atomic Energy Policy in France Under the Fourth Republic (Princeton University Press, 1965); EURATOM: Nuclear Integration in Europe (Carnegie Endowment, 1967); The Nonproliferation Role of the International Atomic Energy Agency: A Critical Assessment (Resources for the Future, 1985); The IAEA and World Nuclear Order (Resources for the Future, 1987); Non-Proliferation and the IAEA: A US-Soviet Agenda (Atlantic Council of the United States, 1985); Assuring the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Safeguards System (Atlantic Council of the United States, 1992).

Recent articles include: "Strengthened IAEA Safeguards and Special Inspections," Aurora Papers (Canadian Centre for Global Security, 1994); "Lessons from Post-War Iraq for the International Full-Scope Safeguards Regime," Arms Control Today (April, 1993); "The International Atomic Energy Agency and Arms Control," Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993); "Nuclear Safeguards and Non-Proliferation in a Changing World Order," Security Dialogue (December, l992); "The Role of Multilateral Regimes in Non-Proliferation," Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems (Fall, 1992); "The Nonproliferation Treaty: On the Road to 1995," IAEA Bulletin (no. 2, 1992); "Managing the Coming Glut of Nuclear Weapons Material," Arms Control Today (March, 1992); "The Relevance of Nuclear Proliferation to Future European Security, Cornell International Law Journal (1991); "Does the NPT Matter? A Normative Inquiry," in Pilat and Pendley, eds, The Future of the Nonproliferation Regime (Plenum Press, 1990).

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