Allison Stanger
| Allison Stanger | |
|---|---|
| Residence | American Northeast |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Professor, political scientist, consultant |
| Awards | Merle Fainsod Prize (1986) |
| Academic background | |
| Education |
B.S., Ball State University (1982) GradD, London School of Economics (1983) A.M., Harvard University (1988) Ph.D, Harvard University (1991) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | International Relations and Foreign Policy |
| Institutions | Middlebury College |
| Notable works | One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy |
Allison Katherine Stanger is a political scientist and the Russell J. Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College[1] and the founding director of Middlebury's Rohatyn Center for International Affairs. Stanger has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2004, and since October 2009 she has also been working as a part-time consultant to the United States Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff.
Career
Stanger graduated in 1982 with a B.S. in Actuarial Science/Mathematics from Ball State University. In 1983, she obtained a graduate diploma in Economics from the London School of Economics. In 1986, she won the Merle Fainsod Prize for academic promise. In 1988, she earned an A.M. in Soviet Union Regional Studies from Harvard University where she completed her Ph.D in Political Science 1991.
In 1990–91, Stanger was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. Between 1995 and 1996, she was a visiting scholar at Prague's Charles University.
Stanger has published op-eds on this topic in the Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and in 2010 testified before the Commission on Wartime Contracting, the Senate Budget Committee, and the Congressional Oversight Panel.[2]
In her book, One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, Stanger argues that poor oversight of U.S. government contractors in Afghanistan and Iraq has squandered American resources, exacerbating domestic unemployment and deficit problems.[3][4][5]
Currently, Stanger is focusing on the relationship between technology, the law, and politics. She is writing a book entitled Consumers Versus Citizens: How the Internet is Remaking American National Security and Other Things that Matter. She also teaches courses at Middlebury College entitled "Politics of Virtual Realities" and "American Foreign Policy".[2]
Books
- One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 2009).
- Irreconcilable Differences? Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution (co-edited and co-translated with Michael Kraus), Foreword by Václav Havel (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
- Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Leaks: The Story of Whistleblowing in America (Yale University Press, under contract).
- In development: "Consumers Versus Citizens: How the Internet Revolution is Remaking Global Security and Democracy's Public Square."
Congressional testimony
- Testimony before the Congressional Oversight Panel, “Hearing on Treasury’s Use of Private Contractors”—September 22, 2010
- Testimony before the Senate Budget Committee, Hearing on “Responsible Contracting: Modernizing the Business of Government”—July 15, 2010
- Testimony before the Commission on Wartime Contracting, Hearing on “Are Private Contractors Performing Inherently Governmental Functions?”—June 18, 2010
References
- ↑ Faculty profile, Middlebury Political Science Dept., retrieved 2011-10-03.
- 1 2 "Allison Stanger". 11 November 2009. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ↑ "The $1-million soldier", CBC, reprinted from the Financial Post, December 13, 2009.
- ↑ Cummings, Capt. Michael (April 18, 2011), "One Soldier's Experience With One Nation Under Contract", New York Times.
- ↑ Davidson, Joe (June 22, 2010), "Defining 'inherently governmental' and role of contractors in U.S. war fight", Washington Post.