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Steve Osborne

Steve Osborne B.A. Hons. Dip. Trans.

Research Associate

Research interests

  • Security
  • International relations
  • International development

Biography

Dr Steve Osborne is a Research Associate at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS). Since joining King’s College London in 2017, he has worked on proliferation networks and sanctions, and the implications of Brexit for export control.

He leads the team’s projects on maritime sanctions, aimed at strengthening implementation and enforcement. In this capacity he has devised and delivered research and training programmes aimed at improving practices to combat North Korean sanctions breaking.

Steve also maintains close links with maritime service providers and has been a panel member at several webinars and conferences for the compliance sector. He moved to King’s College London from the UK civil service, where he worked for many years in the area of counter-proliferation and export control and was a member of the UK government’s cross-departmental export control committee.

Research 

  • Sanctions and export controls
  • Maritime Sanctions
  • North Korea
  • Weapons of mass destruction programmes and proliferation
  • The uncontrolled spread of small arms and light weapons

Publications

 

 

Research

DPRK - Economic Sanctions and Security in East Asia

Understanding the effect of uni- and multilateral sanctions regime against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Project status: Completed

News

New handbook on best practices in strategic trade control at seaports

Helping ensure the integrity of export controls at publicly and privately-owned seaports.

Aerial view of container ship and transportation in maritime port.

Brexit and export controls: challenges facing the UK and the EU in controls and enforcement, and the implications for proliferation and national security

Strategic trade controls for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) exist to help prevent the proliferation of goods and materials that might benefit the WMD...

Brexit

Whitepaper: entity screening and vessel tracking for UN sanctions

This paper looks at a range of vessel screening and tracking resources. It restricts its scope to North Korea, although the entity screening and vessel...

DPRK flag

Russian sanctions: are they working, workable, and worth it?

Russian actions in Ukraine led to sanctions being imposed by the EU, the United States, and several other international partners.

russia

Stepping up on sanctions - evaluation of the meeting of the International Maritime Organisation in March 2019

At its 27-29 March 2019 session, the Legal Committee of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) agreed that the IMO would work with the U.N. Security...

Container Freighter in the North Sea.

Discussion paper: UN maritime sanctions and the International Maritime Organisation

This paper examines the interplay between sanctions adopted pursuant to Chapter VII of the UN charter and rules governing the maritime sphere. This paper...

Port

Research

DPRK - Economic Sanctions and Security in East Asia

Understanding the effect of uni- and multilateral sanctions regime against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Project status: Completed

News

New handbook on best practices in strategic trade control at seaports

Helping ensure the integrity of export controls at publicly and privately-owned seaports.

Aerial view of container ship and transportation in maritime port.

Brexit and export controls: challenges facing the UK and the EU in controls and enforcement, and the implications for proliferation and national security

Strategic trade controls for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) exist to help prevent the proliferation of goods and materials that might benefit the WMD...

Brexit

Whitepaper: entity screening and vessel tracking for UN sanctions

This paper looks at a range of vessel screening and tracking resources. It restricts its scope to North Korea, although the entity screening and vessel...

DPRK flag

Russian sanctions: are they working, workable, and worth it?

Russian actions in Ukraine led to sanctions being imposed by the EU, the United States, and several other international partners.

russia

Stepping up on sanctions - evaluation of the meeting of the International Maritime Organisation in March 2019

At its 27-29 March 2019 session, the Legal Committee of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) agreed that the IMO would work with the U.N. Security...

Container Freighter in the North Sea.

Discussion paper: UN maritime sanctions and the International Maritime Organisation

This paper examines the interplay between sanctions adopted pursuant to Chapter VII of the UN charter and rules governing the maritime sphere. This paper...

Port