Stephen Semler
Co-Founder, Security Policy Reform Institute (SPRI) (website)
twitter: @stephensemler substack
email: stephen [at] securityreform [dot] org
phone: +1 412.514.0112
Co-Founder, Security Policy Reform Institute (SPRI) (website)
twitter: @stephensemler substack
email: stephen [at] securityreform [dot] org
phone: +1 412.514.0112
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Stephen Semler is co-founder of Security Policy Reform Institute (SPRI), a grassroots-funded U.S. foreign policy think tank. Previously, Semler was based in Beirut, Lebanon, as an analyst for Mercy Corps’ Humanitarian Access Team for Syria. He also has experience in federal government relations, forensic weapons investigations, and policy analysis and advocacy. Semler has written for Jacobin, Outrider, Responsible Statecraft, and others and is the author of the Speaking Security newsletter.
Semler studied the geopolitics of the Middle East and US foreign policy toward the region at Pennsylvania State University, University of Jordan, George Washington University and American University of Beirut.
Stephen Semler is co-founder of Security Policy Reform Institute (SPRI), a grassroots-funded U.S. foreign policy think tank. Previously, Semler was based in Beirut, Lebanon, as an analyst for Mercy Corps’ Humanitarian Access Team for Syria. He also has experience in federal government relations, forensic weapons investigations, and policy analysis and advocacy. Semler has written for Jacobin, Outrider, Responsible Statecraft, and others and is the author of the Speaking Security newsletter.
Semler studied the geopolitics of the Middle East and US foreign policy toward the region at Pennsylvania State University, University of Jordan, George Washington University and American University of Beirut.
Recent Publications:
- "The United States Should Not Fund Israel’s Assault on Gaza," Jacobin, October 12, 2023.
- "Top Five Weapons Companies Set to Get $140 Billion From Pentagon Next Year," Sludge, September 22, 2023.
- "Military Spending Is Soaring, Even as Food Insecurity Reaches New Heights," Jacobin, August 8, 2023.
- "Biden Is Selling Weapons To The Majority Of The World’s Autocracies," The Intercept, May 11, 2023.
- "The Cataclysmic Iraq War in 6 Charts," Jacobin, April 8, 2023.
- "House authorizes $858B for the Pentagon," Speaking Security newsletter, December 8, 2022.
- "How the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Its Power and Harms Workers, in 6 Graphs," Jacobin, October 13, 2022.
- "The Think Tanks Advising Congress on Military Spending Take Money From the Arms Industry," Jacobin, Septmeber 24, 2022.
- “Biden’s Militarized Foreign Policy is Obstructing his Climate Agenda,” Outrider, July 19, 2022.