William R. Hawkins
Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the
U.S. Business and Industry Council Education Foundation
Mr. Hawkins specializes in international economics and national defense issues. Before joining the USBIC, he served as Senior Research Analyst for Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA); the first year on the staff of the Republican Research Committee—which Rep. Hunter chaired, and the next four years on Rep. Hunter's personal staff during the period when Rep. Hunter was chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Procurement. Mr. Hawkins also hosted the weekly radio program "In the National Interest" which was heard nationally on the Information and Entertainment America Network from 1997 to the summer of 2000.
Prior to working on Capitol Hill, Mr. Hawkins served as director of the U.S. Business and Industry Council's (USBIC) Economic Security Action Center. In the 1980s, he was an economics professor at Appalachian State University, the University of North Carolina-Asheville and Radford University, where he taught courses in labor economics and industrial organization. He holds graduate degrees in both Economics and History.
Mr. Hawkins is the author of three monographs: The Open Borders Lobby and the Nation's Security after 9/11 (Center for the Study of Popular Culture, 2004), Importing Revolution: Open Borders and the Radical Agenda (American Immigration Control Foundation, 1994) and America's Economic Preeminence: Goals for the 1990s (with Anthony Harrigan, USBIC, 1989). He has also contributed chapters to six other books including Selected Readings in Military History (U.S. Military Academy, 1993); America Asleep: The Free Trade Syndrome and the Global Economic Challenge (USBIC, 1991); Peace Betrayed? Essays on Pacifism and Politics (Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1990); and The New Federalist Papers (Claremont Institute, 1989).
During the past 20 years, Mr Hawkins has published over 180 articles, including pieces in The Naval War College Review, Parameters (Army War College), The National Interest, Strategic Review, The Journal of Economic History, Seapower, The Weekly Standard, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Policy Review, Army, Military History, Naval History, China Brief and National Review among others. In addition; he is a frequent contributor of op-ed columns to major newspapers and worked as a nationally syndicated columnist for the Knight-Ridder/Tribune Newswire 1991-1995.