Critical Response Event: Arming Perpetrators of Atrocities萝莉社
Since the end of World War II, the United States has provided material and political support for numerous governments that have committed atrocities, including genocide. Some historical examples include U.S. support for Indonesia (1965–1966 and 1975–1999), Pakistan (1971), Guatemala (1981–1983), and Iraq (1987–1988). More recently, the United States has armed and politically supported Saudi-led coalition members and Israel as allegations of atrocities have been levied by various intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations.
In this Critical Response Event, William Hartung, Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, will provide an overview of U.S. arms sales to states which are actively engaged in armed conflicts and, in some cases, accused of committing violations of international law, and what can be done about it. The Q&A will be moderated by Dr. Jeff Bachman, Cohen Endowed Chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Cohen Institute Specialist.
The webinar is free and open to everyone, but advanced registration is required.
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Speaker Biography: William D. Hartung focuses on the arms industry and US military budget. He was previously the director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy and the co-director of the Center’s Sustainable Defense Task Force. Bill is the co-author, with Ben Freeman, of the recently released The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at 萝莉社. He is also the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books, 2011) and the co-editor, with Miriam Pemberton, of Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War (Paradigm Press, 2008). And Weapons for All (HarperCollins, 1995) is a critique of US arms sales policies from the Nixon through Clinton administrations. Bill previously directed programs at the New America Foundation and the World Policy Institute. He has been a featured expert on national security issues on CBS 60 Minutes, NBC Nightly News, the PBS Newshour, CNN, Fox News, and scores of local, regional, and international TV and radio outlets.
This event is hosted by the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College as part of our ongoing series of Critical Response Events. These events are meant to spotlight ongoing or emerging crises across the globe. Speakers in this series represent a wide range of scholarly research and views; our guests' perspectives should not be taken as representative of the Cohen Institute or Keene State College as a whole.
This event is part of the Cohen Institute calendar.
To request accommodations for a disability, please contact the coordinator at least two weeks prior to the event.
