William D. Hartung | |
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.jpg) Hartung atASSA 2026 | |
| Born | (1955-06-07)June 7, 1955 (age 70) |
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| Nationality | American |
William D. Hartung (born June 7, 1955) is an American political scientist and author. He is a senior research fellow at theQuincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, where his work focuses on the arms industry and U.S. military budget.[1]
Hartung is the former director of the Arms and Security Project at theCenter for International Policy,[2] a former senior research fellow in theNew America Foundation's American Strategy Program, and is former director of the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute.
He specializes in questions of weapons proliferation, the economics of military spending, and alternative approaches to national security strategy. Hartung was director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. Prior to that, he was director of the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute. He also worked as a speechwriter and policy analyst for New York State Attorney GeneralRobert Abrams.[3]
He has contributed to theBulletin of the Atomic Scientists,The Nation,[4]The New York Times,The Washington Post, andMother Jones.[5]
He featured in the documentariesHijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004) andMaking a Killing: Inside the International Arms Trade (2006).
Hartung opposed theIraq War and criticised thewar on terror on the basis that it would not "quell the political powerlessness and frustration that fuels terrorism" in theMiddle East, and that theBush administration lackedmoral authority as it supportedIsrael and undemocratic regimes.[6]
Hartung resides in N.Y.
