Arms and Security Initiative

The American Strategy Program's Arms and Security Initiative provides independent research and policy analysis to journalists, policy makers, and citizen’s organizations on the issues of weapons proliferation, the economics of military spending, and alternative national security frameworks. It is the successor project to the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute. For an archive of that project’s work, go to www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms.

This initiative’s work has contributed to practical policy changes on the issues of the arms trade and human rights, arms export subsidies, defense contracting procedures, and nuclear weapons policy. Our overriding goal is to promote greater public understanding of national security issues that can create a constituency for more effective policies.

William Hartung directs the Arms and Security Initiative for which Frida Berrigan is the senior program associate.