William D. Hartung to Direct the Arms and Security Initiative at New America Foundation
The New America Foundation today announced that William D. Hartung will direct the new Arms and Security Initiative, a component of the Foundation’s American Strategy Program. The project will serve as a resource on weapons proliferation, the politics and economics of military spending, and alternative approaches to national security strategy for journalists, policymakers, and citizens’ organizations. It is the successor project to the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute.
“William Hartung and The Arms and Security Initiative are invaluable additions to our foreign policy team that is trying to conceptualize innovative approaches to America’s 21st century security needs and to restore U.S. moral credibility and global leadership,” said Steve Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at New America. “As the successor project to the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute, Hartung’s Arms and Security Initiative will constructively provoke foreign policy debate in Washington and hopefully blast by the inertia and status-quoism that dominate defense policy thinking today.”
"Our affiliation with the American Strategy Program at New America will greatly increase the reach and impact of our work,” said Hartung.
Before coming to New America, Mr. Hartung worked for 15 years as director of the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute at the New School in New York City, and as a project director at the New York-based Council on Economic Priorities. He was also a policy analyst and speechwriter for former New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams. Mr. Hartung authored and co-authored numerous newspaper and magazine articles, reports, and books, including And Weapons for All (1994), and How Much Are You Making on the War Daddy? A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush Administration (2003). He has also contributed chapters to Sean Costigan and David Gold, editors, Terrornomics (2007), and William Keller and Gordon Mitchell, editors, Hitting First: Preventive Force in U.S. Security Strategy (2006).
Related Programs: American Strategy Program, Arms and Security Initiative
Topics: Foreign Policy, National Security
