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‘We are certainly going to see total peacekeeper numbers keep falling this year, and probably next year too, as a result of the NATO drawdown in Afghanistan,’ said Dr Jaïr van der Lijn, a SIPRI Senior Researcher, who leads SIPRI’s work on peace operations, peacebuilding and conflict m...
Cybersecurity concerns have been good news for traditional arms producers and military services companies. BAE Systems, EADS, Finmeccanica, General Dynamics, Raytheon and Thales have all expanded into the cybersecurity market in recent years to benefit from its rapid growth at a time ...
The stated objective of the meeting is to ‘set the stage for PSI activities’ and ‘underline the political importance of the PSI’ through four joint statements and declarations on future activity. However, for the PSI to fulfil its full potential and remain relevant for another 10 year...
The fall—the first since 1998—was driven by major spending cuts in the USA and Western and Central Europe, as well as in Australia, Canada and Japan. The reductions were, however, substantially offset by increased spending in Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and...
Deliveries to European countries fell by 20 per cent between 2003–2007 and 2008–12. European states seem eager to abandon or reduce a range of arms import plans. During 2012 Italy and the Netherlands reduced their orders for F-35 combat aircraft from the USA, while Bulgaria, Croatia a...
The SIPRI Military Expenditure Database consistent time series on the military spending of 172 countries since 1988. It provides military expenditure data by country in the following three formats: in local currency, at current prices. 1988-2012 in US dollars, at constant (2011) price...
18 Feb. 2013: SIPRI Top 100 arms sales decreased in 2011: companies pursue diverse strategies in response to austerity measures (Stockholm, 18 February 2013) Sales of arms and military services by the largest arms-producing companies - the SIPRI Top 100 - totalled $410 billion in 2011...
These changes in the realities of the international arms trade have three key implications for an ATT. First, a number of UN member states have arms export ambitions that operate with very different practices and understandings of arms trade responsibilities to those of the more estab...
