FAO Team Bios
Dr. Joanna Spear
Dr. Spear is a Research Professor of International Affairs and Principal Investigator of the FAO Regional Skill Sustainment Initiative. She was previously Director of the Elliott School’s Security Policy Studies Program and the Founding Director of the National Security Studies Program. Prior to joining GW, she was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.
Dr. Spear has published on a variety of subjects in international security, including arms control, U.S. foreign policy making, post-conflict peace building and arms exports. Her work can be found in Arms Control Today, Contemporary Security Policy, Security Studies, Strategic Analysis, Review of International Studies and World Politics Review.
Dr. Spear has held fellowships at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, the Royal United Services Institute, the Institute for Defence and Security Analyses, New Delhi and was twice a visiting scholar at Chatham House. During 2023-24 she will be a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.
Dr. Spear is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. She sits on the editorial boards of the RUSI Journal and the National Defense University’s PRISM journal of complex operations.
- Areas of Expertise
History of the international arms trade, U.S. and UK arms export controls, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), security and development, vaccines against Covid-19.
- Current Research
During her Wilson Center Fellowship Dr. Spear will be undertaking a project on the domestic strategies and foreign policies of the biotech and pharma firms who developed vaccines to combat Covid-19.
- Education
PhD Southampton University (UK)
- Publications
Books and Monographs:
The Business of Armaments: Armstrongs, Vickers and the International Arms Trade, 1855-1955. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 388pp.
The Changing Labour Party, Edited with Martin J. Smith, Routledge, Reissued in 2020 as part of Routledge’s series on The Labour Movement. 246pp.
Security and Development in Global Politics: A Critical Comparison Edited with Paul D. Williams, Georgetown University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-58901-886-0. 330pp.
Market Forces: The Political Economy of Private Military Companies, FAFO, Oslo, 2006.
The Spread of Reconnaissance Satellites and their Potential Implications for Long-Range United States National Security, for Project 2015: Strategic Vision, United States’ Joint Chiefs, 1995.
Carter and Arms Sales: Implementing the Carter Administration’s Arms Transfer Restraint Policy, Macmillan, 1995, 246pp.
Chapters in Edited Books:
‘Counterinsurgency’, in Paul D. Williams and Matthew MacDonald (eds.) Security Studies: An Introduction, Fourth Edition, Routledge, 2023. pp. 468-484.
‘United States’ Export Control Policies and Practices’, in Laurence Lustgarten (ed.), Law and the Arms Trade: Weapons, Blood and Rules, Hart Publishers, 2020. pp, 239-287.
‘Organizational Survival: NATO as a Pragmatic Functionalist’, in Ian Shapiro and Adam Tooze (eds.), Basic Documents in World Politics: The NATO Charter, Yale University Press, 2018. pp. 154-177.
‘The Militarization of United States Foreign Aid’, in Stephen Brown and Joern Graevingholt (eds.), The Securitization of Aid, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. pp. 18-41.
Article:
The Personal Costs of War: Illustrated by the 2014 England Football Squad’, RUSI Journal, 165: 5-6 (January 2021), pp. 102-118.
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Dr. Alex Finn Macartney
Dr. Alex Finn Macartney is Associate Director of the FAO Regional Skill Sustainment Initiative and an Assistant Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He is a historian of radical politics and violence in Modern Japan and Modern Germany. His research and teaching specialties revolve around global and transnational history after 1945, with a particular focus on the international reaction to the US war in Vietnam.
Previously, Dr. Macartney was a visiting researcher at the Free University in Berlin and Waseda University in Tokyo. His most recent position was as a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer with the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University’s Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies. There, he taught the course “Race, Gender, and Empire in Japan and Germany, 1860 – the Present” and gave talks on the Red Army Factions in Japan and West Germany as well as anti-war GIs on foreign US bases in the Vietnam War.
His current book project, titled, Revolt Against Empire: Protest and Armed Resistance against the Vietnam War in Japan and West Germany, explores exchanges between anti-Vietnam War groups in Japan, West Germany, and the US in the 1960s and 1970s. The book focuses on the legacies of the fascist past, the transnational imagination of the 1960s, and use of political violence in both states. He has also published on the Japanese anti-imperialist movement in the Vietnam War era and protests against the Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s state visit to Europe in 1971.
Dr. Macartney received a B.A. from Lawrence University in 2010 and a Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University in 2019.
Sandy Fauré
Sandy Fauré is a Program Coordinator for the FAO Regional Skill Sustainment Initiative at the Elliott School of International Affairs. He is finishing a master’s degree in Asian Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, and holds a degree in political science and Chinese from St. Olaf College.
He completed an internship with the U.S. Department of State at its consulate in Shanghai, China and hopes to work on issues central to U.S.-China relations in the future. Sandy’s interest in Asia comes from family ties to Taiwan and China and his upbringing in the San Gabriel valley of Southern California. He began his study of Mandarin in high school and has participated in language programs in mainland China. As a second-year undergraduate, he performed fieldwork in Taiwan on agricultural policy.