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Bill HartungWILLIAM HARTUNG
Director, ArmsTrade Research Center 
President's Fellow, World Policy Institute 

Expertise: 
Internationally recognized expert on the issues of the arms trade and the economics of military spending; American foreign policy 

Experience: 
Director of the Project on the Control of the International Arms Trade at the World Policy Institute; Research associate and project director at the New York-based Council on Economic Priorities; speech writer and policy analyst for New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams. He has appeared as a guest on national television and radio programs including CBS 60 Minutes, NBC Nightly News, the MacNeill/Lehrer Report, CNN's Inside Business and National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation.  

Selected Publications: 
Hartung is the author or co-author of numerous books and studies, including The Changing Dynamics of U.S. Defense Policy and Budgeting in the Post-Cold War Era (co-author; forthcoming, Greenwood Press, 1999); Welfare for Weapons Dealers 1998: The Hidden Costs of NATO Expansion (World Policy Institute, 1998); U.S. Weapons at War (World Policy Institute, 1995); And Weapons for All (1994). His articles on the arms trade and the economics of defense spending have appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, the Nation, the Christian Science Monitor, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the World Policy Journal and numerous other publications. 

Honors & Affiliations: 
Member of the International Studies Association; recipient of a research and writing grant from the Program on International Peace and Cooperation of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 

Education: 
B.A. in philosophy, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University 

Contact Information: 
E-mail: Hartung@newschool.edu 
Phone: WPI (212) 229-5808 x106 

 

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