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The United States is the world's largest arms seller and one of it's largest importers. Experts listed here work explicitly on the complex U.S. approach to arms trade and security assistance.

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  • Navy Admiral’s bribery charges expose greater rot in the system | Responsible Statecraft | June 7, 2024. | William Hartung
    United StatesMiddle East and North Africa (MENA)
  • Every Killchain starts with the Money - and 20 other unhinged comments heard at an AI conference in DC | Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft | June 5, 2024. | Shana Marshall
    Middle East and North Africa (MENA)CorruptionUnited States
  • Israel and the Leahy Law | Just Security | June 2024 | Charles (Cob) Blaha
    Middle East and North Africa (MENA)United StatesHumanitarian Law/Human RightsHarm to Civilians
  • Advancing a More Effective and Ethical U.S. Arms Transfer Policy | Arms Control Association | May 31, 2024. | Rachel Stohl, Ari Tolany, John Ramming Chappell
    United StatesHumanitarian Law/Human RightsHarm to CiviliansArms Trade Treaty (ATT)Regional ExpertiseGlobalAsia/Oceania
  • For Another Year, DoD Fails to Make Condolence Payments to Civilian Harm Victims | Just Security | May 7, 2024. | Annie Shiel
    United StatesExplosive Weapons in Populated AreasHumanitarian Law/Human RightsHarm to Civilians
  • A Pentagon budget of $1 trillion is looming. Here’s how to stop it | The Hill | April 26, 2024. | Stephen Semler
    United States
  • Defense offsets and political leverage | The Economics of Peace and Security Journal | April 19, 2024. | Jen Spindel
    GlobalUnited StatesAI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons
  • Blissfully Blind: The new US push for defence industrial collaboration with partner countries and its corruption risks | Transparency International Defence and Security (TI-DS) | April 11, 2024. | Colby Goodman
    United StatesAfrica
  • Responsibilities to Prevent: Responsibilities of Supply-Side Actors to Prevent the Adverse Human Rights Impacts of Arms Exports to Conflict Zones | Geneva | April 4, 2024. | Hiruni Alwishewa
    Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)United StatesHumanitarian Law/Human RightsHarm to Civilians
  • On Gaza, Democrats are talking one way but walking another | Jacobin | April 3, 2024. | Stephen Semler
    United States
  • Biden OKs more arms to Israel, crushing hope of Gaza shift | Responsible Statecraft | April 2, 2024. | William Hartung
    United StatesMiddle East and North Africa (MENA)
  • Diplomatic Debate Over Autonomous Weapons Heats Up | Arms Control Today | 2024 | Michael Klare
    United StatesAI/Autonomous and Emerging WeaponsAsia/Oceania
  • Spending Unlimited: The Pentagon's Budget Follies Come at a High Price | TomDispatch | March 26, 2024. | William Hartung
    United StatesMiddle East and North Africa (MENA)
  • Fact Sheet: Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act | CIVIC and Oxfam America | March 14, 2024. | John Ramming Chappell
    United StatesHumanitarian Law/Human RightsHarm to Civilians
  • Joe Biden is shipping weapons to Israel every 36 hours | Jacobin | March 13, 2024. | Stephen Semler
    United States
  • Another year, another delusional Pentagon budget request | Responsible Statecraft | March 12, 2024. | William Hartung
    United StatesMiddle East and North Africa (MENA)
  • Senators want to dust off 'Truman Committee' to out war profiteers | Responsible Statecraft | March 7, 2024. | William Hartung
    United StatesMiddle East and North Africa (MENA)
  • Biden is bankrolling Israel's war amid growing financial hardship at home | The Intercept | March 1, 2024. | Stephen Semler
    United States
  • Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2023 | SIPRI | 2023 | Mathew George, Pieter D. Wezeman
    GlobalAsia/OceaniaUnited StatesMiddle East and North Africa (MENA)Europe
  • An American Mercenary Resurfaces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Inkstick | February 29, 2024. | Michael Picard
    Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)United StatesCorruption
  • Competing Against Ourselves: How a Narrow Focus on 'Strategic Competition' Undermines U.S. Middle East Policy | DAWN | February 29, 2024. | Josh Paul
    United StatesMiddle East and North Africa (MENA)
  • Security Dilemma | Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports | February 22, 2024. | John Ramming Chappell
    United StatesHumanitarian Law/Human RightsHarm to Civilians
  • Biden’s New Policy on Security Assistance, NSM-20, Will Not Save Gaza | Lawfare | February 14, 2024. | Sarah Harrison
    United StatesHumanitarian Law/Human RightsHarm to Civilians
  • End Israeli exceptionalism under US law | The Hill | February 2, 2024. | William Hartung
    United StatesMiddle East and North Africa (MENA)
  • The “War Reserve Stockpile Allies – Israel | Explained & Why Congress Should Not Expand It | January 16, 2024. | Sarah Harrison
    United StatesHumanitarian Law/Human RightsHarm to Civilians
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