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John Spacapan

John Spacapan is the Wohlstetter Public Affairs Fellow at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Previously, he worked on Middle Eastern Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Prior to work at AEI, he served as a foreign policy legislative aide on the staff of US Senator Mark Kirk. He holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MA from the University of Chicago.