Hawkins to serve as Arkadelphia Rotary Club guest speaker, Feb. 14, 2014

The Arkadelphia Rotary Club will meet Friday, February 14, 2014, at Western Sizzlin, 106 WP Malone Drive, for its weekly meeting. Mr. William Hawkins has been invited to serve as guest speaker and will share his message, "Why Congressional 'Junkets' are Important." Rotarians and guests are invited to attend. For more information on the guest speaker, please read his brief biography below. 

WILLIAM HAWKINS is currently the president of the Hamilton Center for National Strategy, a research and consulting group specializing in national security and international economics. Last year he retired from the staff of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He worked in Washington for nearly twenty years including serving on the staff of the House Republican Research Committee and on the personal staff of Rep. Duncan Hunter, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee. He also worked for the U.S. Business and Industry Council for eight years concentrating on foreign trade and defense industry issues. From 1997-2000 he hosted a national radio talk show, and also served on the board of the Asia-America Initiative.

He earned a BA degree at the University of Illinois with a double major in world history and international relations; an MA in diplomatic and military history from Stephen F. Austin State University; and an MA in economics from the University of Tennessee. He has taught economics at Appalachian State University, the Univ. of North Carolina-Asheville, and Radford University.

He has published hundreds of articles in both scholarly journals and popular media including for the Army War College, the Naval War College, the Journal of Military History, Army Magazine, Military History Magazine, Military History Quarterly, Naval History, National Review, Industry Today, The National Interest and China Brief among others. He is currently a contributing editor at Family Security Matters and frequently blogs at The American Thinker.