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Seth Binder
Advocacy Officer, Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED)
twitter: @seth_binder
      
email: seth [dot] binder [at] pomed [dot] org



security assistance | Middle East

Seth Binder is the Advocacy Officer at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) where he focuses on U.S. policy, security assistance, and arms sales to the Middle East and North Africa. Before POMED, Seth was the Program Manager at the Center for International Policy for the Security Assistance Monitor program where he focused on U.S. security assistance and arms sales policy where, among others, he authored articles and publications on US security assistance to Palestine, Yemen, Israel, and Tunisia. He has been quoted in numerous outlets including TIME, Al-Jazeera, and Foreign Policy.  He is the co-author of “The Moroccan Spring and King Mohammed VI’s Economic Policy Agenda: Evaluating the First Dozen Years," a chapter in The Birth of the Arab Citizen and the Changing of the Middle East. 

He received his B.A. in History from Oberlin College and M.A. in International Relations from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs where he received certificates in Advanced Study in Middle Eastern Affairs and International Counterterrorism. 

Recent Publications:
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  • "U.S. Security Assistance to Non-State Actors: Unintended Consequences and Long-term Instability" in Forum on the Arms Trade publication Addressing Non-State Actors: Multiple Approaches, May 2018
  • "Time To Rethink U.S. Military Aid To Egypt" (with William Hartung), LobeLog.com, March 28, 2018.
  • "Are we making the same mistakes in Iraq?," Inkstick, Sept 18.
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