Allison Stanger: Privatization of Power, Democracy Promotion, American Foreign Policy, and European Politics [VIDEO]

Allison Stanger is an American foreign policy expert. She can speak to decreased accountability and government outsourcing, government contracting, globalization and the changing nature of power, the transparency imperative for 21st century governance, and the evolving relationship between the public and private sectors in American national security.

Stanger is the author of “Empire of the Willing: The Privatization of American Power” (2009) and co-editor and co-translator, with Michael Kraus, of “Irreconcilable Differences? Explaining Czechoslovakia’s Dissolution” (2000; foreword by Václav Havel). Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and, with Felix Rohatyn, The Financial Times and the International Herald Tribune. She received her doctorate in political science from Harvard University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.