William D. Hartung is the President's Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School. He is an expert on the arms trade and military spending, and the author of And Weapons for All (HarperCollins, 1995), a critique of U.S. arms sales policies from the Nixon through Clinton administrations. Mr. Hartung directs the Institute's Arms Trade Resource Center, which provides the media, policymakers, and the public with timely research and information on the issue of global weapons proliferation.
Prior to his tenure at the World Policy Institute, Mr. Hartung served as a speechwriter and policy analyst for New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams, and as a project director at the New York-based Council on Economic Priorities. He has written, co-authored, or contributed chapters to numerous books and studies, including Ann Markusen, editor, America's Peace Dividend (Columbia International Affairs Online, 2001), Martha Honey and Tom Barry, editors, Global Focus: U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Millennium (St. Martin's, 2000), Leon V. Sigal, editor, The Changing Dynamics of U.S. Defense Spending (Praeger, 1999), Tangled Web: The Marketing of Missile Defense 1994-2000, Welfare for Weapons Dealers 1998: The Hidden Costs of NATO Expansion (World Policy Institute, 1998); Peddling Arms, Peddling Influence (World Policy Institute, 1997); U.S. Weapons at War (World Policy Institute, 1995); Star Wars: The Economic Fallout (Ballinger Press, 1987); and The Economic Consequences of a Nuclear Freeze (Council on Economic Priorities, 1983). His articles on the arms trade and the economics of military spending have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsday, USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, Harper's, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and the World Policy Journal.
In his spare time, Bill Hartung is a stand-up comedian, specializing in political humor. He has performed at Standup New York, the Comic Strip, and Café Underground, as well as at receptions and annual gatherings of progressive organizations like Peace Action, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Mr. Hartung graduated Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University with a BA in Philosophy (1978). He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the International Studies Association, and serves on the advisory boards of the Human Rights Watch Arms Project, the Indonesia Human Rights Network, along with Foreign Policy in Focus.
Other staff members of the Institute's Arms Trade Resource Center project include Deputy Director for Outreach Frida Berrigan; Senior Research Associate Michelle Ciarrocca; and Research Associate Dena Montague, many of whom also write for FPIF:
Frida Berrigan is a Senior Research Associate with the Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy Institute. A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, Frida focuses on nuclear weapons policy, weapons sales to areas of conflict particularly in SE Asia, and military training programs. She often lectures on these and other topics at colleges and universities, most recently in Minnesota and Wisconsin. She also edits the ATRC Update, a widely read monthly e-magazine of resources and analysis from ATRC staff on politics, war, peace and the arms trade. Her articles regularly appear in various magazines and newspapers, including the Baltimore Sun, In These Times, and the Hartford Courant.
Michelle Ciarrocca is a Senior Research Associate with the Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy Institute. Michelle graduated from the New School for Social Research in 1998 with a Liberal Arts BA, concentrating in International Studies and Anthropology. Her areas of focus at the Institute include U.S. arms fueling conflict around the world, missile defense, defense industry lobbying efforts, and U.S. military budget issues. Michelle edits the ATRC Newswire, a compilation of news articles on the arms trade. She has been published in numerous newspapers, including the LA Times, Boston Globe, and the Nation magazine.
Dena Montague is a Senior Research Associate with the Arms Trade Resource Center of World Policy Institute. Dena is a graduate of Brown University and recently received her MA in Political Science/Historical Studies from New School University. At the Arms Trade Resource Center, Dena researches the U.S. arms trade to Africa. Dena focuses on connecting U.S. economic interest with the formulation of U.S. military/foreign policy towards Africa. Dena is a documentary filmmaker, and is in Africa for Fall 2002, researching and filming in Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dena Montague and Frida Berrigan are recipients of the Project Censored 2003 award for their article "The Business of War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Who Benefits," Dollars and Sense, July/August 2001.
Articles written by this Advisory Committee Member for FPIF
Why Bush Was Good for Foreign Policy (Satirists)
Dec 30, 2008
In Wake of Wall Street Bailout, Stop Bailing Out the Arms Industry
Oct 15, 2008
Invitation to Steal: War Profiteering in Iraq
May 28, 2008
Dems: What about the Military Budget?
Feb 21, 2008
Best of Bush 2007
Jan 4, 2008
Democrats Talk Tough
Mar 30, 2006
"Pentagon Priorities Put Troops, Security At Risk"
Feb 7, 2005
How Much Did You Make on the War, Daddy
Jan 1, 2004
Capturing Saddam Hussein: Will It Mean a New Day for Iraq?
Dec 18, 2003
Bombings Bring U.S. 'Executive Mercenaries' Into the Light
May 16, 2003
Farewell Crusader? Insiders Will Cash In Regardless
May 1, 2002
Rumsfeld Reconsidered: An Ideologue in Moderate's Clothing
Jan 1, 2001
Winning One for the Gipper: Donald Rumsfeld and the Return of the Star Wars Lobby
Jan 1, 2001
Bush's Nuclear Doctrine: From MAD to NUTS?
Dec 1, 2000
Star Wars II: Don't Delay It, Kill It
Sep 1, 2000
Moderate or Militant: Will the Real Dick Cheney Please Stand Up?
Jul 1, 2000
Star Wars Revisited: Still Dangerous, Costly, and
Sep 1, 1999
Military Industrial Complex Revisited: How Weapons Makers are Shaping U.S. Foreign and Military Policies
Jun 1, 1999
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FPIF's broad principles of internationalism, human rights, anti-militarism,
and sustainable development, FPIF doesn't expect all members necessarily to
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