I am a political economist of international security, focusing on the intersection of military innovation and public procurement. Since September 2001, I have been advising arms industries and war ministries on strategies, plans, and policies. My work aims to inform investors, industrialists, technologists, and policymakers on how to effect economically a more secure future politically.
My Research has spanned multiple areas of the provisioning of security, including innovation and new military technologies, international procurement of armaments, industrial structure (including corporate alliances and mergers) in the arms industries, human capital and military organizations, intellectual property in military procurement, and theories of strategy.
In my Teaching, I have repeatedly developed, on short notice, graduate-level courses in public procurement, military innovation, industrial mobilization, the political economy of arms industries, business strategy in government contracting, pricing in government contracting, and military-industrial strategy.
Together, my academic experience spans the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy at the National Defense University, the Baroni Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, and the Acquisition Innovation Research Center at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
I hold a PhD in public policy from the University of Texas at Austin, where I wrote my dissertation on marketing to the military during wartime. My case study was the Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected (MRAP) vehicle program of the Iraq War. I also hold an MBA in applied economics from the University of Chicago and an AB from Duke University.
For my latest analysis of issues military-industrial, read my column Arms & Industry at https://substack.com/@jameshasik.
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