Seth Binder
Independent researcher
twitter: @seth_binder
email: swbinger [at] gmail [dot] com
Independent researcher
twitter: @seth_binder
email: swbinger [at] gmail [dot] com
security assistance | Middle East
Seth Binder is an independent researcher, focused on U.S. security assistance and arms sales. As Program Manager and Research Associate at the Center for International Policy for the Security Assistance Monitor program he focused on 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.
Before joining Security Assistance Monitor, Binder was a Policy Assistant at the Project on Middle East Democracy where he assisted the Advocacy program. 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:
Seth Binder is an independent researcher, focused on U.S. security assistance and arms sales. As Program Manager and Research Associate at the Center for International Policy for the Security Assistance Monitor program he focused on 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.
Before joining Security Assistance Monitor, Binder was a Policy Assistant at the Project on Middle East Democracy where he assisted the Advocacy program. 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:
- "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.
