Alexandra Marksteiner

Researcher

Alexandra Marksteiner

Alexandra Marksteiner was a Researcher with the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme. In this capacity, she collected and analyzed data on military spending and the arms industry. Among her areas of research are the international presence of arms companies and the financial value of arms exports, as well as trends in US and German military expenditure.

Prior to joining SIPRI, she interned with the Security and Strategy Team at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She has also worked for the Atlantic Council, the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the UN Department of Peace Operations. During her graduate studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS, she focused on the nexus between international security and multilateral cooperation.

Subject expertise

International security, joint military procurement, arms industry, European defence integration, NATO alliance, transatlantic defence relations, military expenditure

Regional expertise

Europe, North America, Global commons

Languages

German, English, Spanish, French

Education

M.A. in Strategic Studies and International Economics, Johns Hopkins SAIS, B.A. in International Studies and Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

SIPRI COMMENTARY

Improving transparency in military spending through disaggregated information (Topical backgrounder, August 2022 )
Explainer: The proposed hike in German military spending (Blog, March 2022 )

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

Lopes Da Silva, D., Tian, N., Béraud-Sudreau, L., Marksteiner, A. and Liang, X., Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2021 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2022)
Lopes da Silva, D., Tian, N. and Marksteiner, A. , Pathways for Reducing Military Spending in Post-civil Conflict Settings (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 2022)
Wezeman, P. et al., A Practical Guide to State Participation in the UN Report on Military Expenditures (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2022)
Lopes da Silva, D., Tian, N. and Marksteiner, A., Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2020 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2021)
Marksteiner, A., Béraud-Sudreau, L., Tian, N., Lopes da Silva, D. and Kuimova, A., The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2020 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
Béraud-Sudreau, L., Marksteiner, A., Lopes da Silva, D., Tian, N., Kuimova, A., Wezeman, P. D and Wezeman, S. T. , Mapping the International Presence of the World’s Largest Arms Companies (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2020)

8. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2022)
8. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2021)
9. International arms transfers and developments in arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2021)

External publications

Marksteiner, A. “Pay Up: The Realist Case for Ending the UN Liquidity Crisis,” The National Interest, November 05, 2019.
Marksteiner, A. “The Europeanization of European Defence and the Future of Transatlantic Relations,” Southern California International Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2019): 64-79.
Marksteiner, A. “Alternative Futures: Rethinking the European Nuclear Posture,” New Atlanticist, July 18, 2017.
Marksteiner, A. “US Freedom of Navigation Operations and the Legal Debate Surrounding Innocent Passage,” Tufts University Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring 2017): 19-36.