About
ENSA is the Economics of National Security Association.
ENSA is a professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in national security economics research. ENSA provides a forum for new ideas and empirical results of economic research applied to national security, defense resource management, and public policy relating to national security and defense. Through a set of professional activities, ENSA aims to advance national security economics research, to achieve widespread recognition for the field of national security economics, and to enhance national security by providing evidence and expertise for the development of public policies. ENSA’s founding president was Martin Feldstein, who pointed out that National Security was the single largest component of GDP sparsely studied by economists.
Goals
- Expand dissemination of research and other information about national security economics.
- Expand application of economic research to the study of national security, defense resource management, and public policy relating to national security and defense.
- Increase entry into and advancement of the field of national security economics.
- Improve professional development opportunities available to faculty and researchers at all levels, including PhD students, in both academic and nonacademic environments.
- Increase teaching of national security economics.
Core Activities
- Provide national security and defense resource data for use in research.
- Promote conferences and meetings, such as the national security and defense sessions at the American Economic Association and Western Economic Association annual meetings.
- Assist the teaching of national security economics at undergraduate and graduate levels through the sharing of teaching materials, case studies, and data.
- Connect national security policy-makers and researchers to share challenges, research findings, data, and institutional knowledge through activities such as coordinating sabbatical, fellowship, and internship opportunities and organizing workshops and meetings.
- Maintain a web-page with information on data, current research, teaching materials, professional activities, job postings, member list, conference materials, and relevant news items.
Officers
- President: Eli Berman, University of California, San Diego
- Vice-President: Michal Meese, AAFMA
- Secretary: Sarah K. John, Institute for Defense Analyses
Board Members
- Eli Berman, University of California, San Diego
- Michael Meese, AAFMA
- Sarah John, Institute for Defense Analyses
- Bill Komiss, CNA
- Carl Wojtaszek, West Point
- Jennie Wenger, RAND
- Mike Kofoed, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Former Board Members
- David Chu, Institute for Defense Analyses
- Linda Cavalluzzo, CNA
- Susan Marquis, RAND
- John Whitley, Institute for Defense Analyses
- Martin Feldstein, Harvard and NBER