James Hasik is a Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

He is a political economist who has been studying global security challenges and the economic enterprises that provide the tools to address them since September 2001.

James is the author of Securing the MRAP: Lessons in Marketing and Military Procurement (Texas A&M University Press, 2021), and Arms and Innovation: Entrepreneurship and Alliances in the Twenty-First Century Defense Industry (University of Chicago Press, 2008). He is also the co-author of Precision Revolution: GPS and the Future of Aerial Warfighting (Naval Institute Press, 2002), and has authored a further five book chapters. His research has been published in RUSI Journal, Defense and Security Analysis, Joint Force Quarterly, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Contemporary Security Policy, Defense Acquisition Research Journal, and Proceedings of the US Naval Institute.

James Hasik earned his BA in history and physics at Duke University, his MBA in business economics at the University of Chicago, and his PhD in public policy at the University of Texas at Austin.