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Dr Mark Bromley
POSITION AT SIPRI
Senior Researcher
Dr Mark Bromley
Dr Mark Bromley is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Dual-Use and Arms Trade Control Programme. His areas of research include arms acquisitions in Latin America, transparency in the field of international arms transfers and the efforts to combat the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons (SALW).
Subject expertise
Transparency of international arms transfers; financial value of the arms trade; arms export policies of EU member states; EU engagement in arms export policies; combatting the illicit trade in SALW; Arms Trade Treaty; controls on the trade in cyber-surveillance systems.
Regional expertise
Western Europe, Latin America
CONTACT Dr Mark Bromley
Languages
English, Spanish
Education
BA in Social and Political Sciences; St John’s College, Cambridge; MA in War Studies, King’s College London
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Sweden
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- SALW-related assistance to states in sub-Saharan Africa: Hitting the target or missing the mark? (Topical backgrounder, January 2022)
- Using official development assistance to strengthen small arms and light weapons controls: Opportunities and risks (Blog, June 2020)
- Revising the EU Dual-use Regulation: Challenges and opportunities for the trilogue process (Topical backgrounder, October 2019)
- The state of the Arms Trade Treaty: Advancing efforts on international assistance and illicit diversion (Blog, August 2018)
- SDG16.4 and the collection of data on illicit arms flows: Progress made but challenges ahead (Topical backgrounder, June 2018)
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Good Practice Guide on Post-shipment On-site Inspections of Military Materiel(SIPRI, Stockholm:August 2022)
- The Missile Technology Control Regime at a Crossroads: Adapting the Regime for Current and Future Challenges(SIPRI, Stockholm:December 2022)
- Adapting the Missile Technology Control Regime for Current and Future Challenges (SIPRI, Stockholm:December 2022)
- Post-shipment On-site Inspections: Multilateral Steps for Debating and Enabling Their Adoption and Use(SIPRI, Stockholm:October 2022)
- Post-shipment On-site Inspections of Military Materiel: Challenges and Responses(SIPRI, Stockholm:December 2021)
- Implementing the 2021 Recast of the EU Dual-use Regulation: Challenges and Opportunities(EUNPDC, Stockholm:September 2021)
- Reporting on Conventional Arms Transfers and Transfer Controls: Improving Coordination and Increasing Engagement(SIPRI, Stockholm:August 2020)
- Detecting, Investigating and Prosecuting Export Control Violations: European Perspectives on Key Challenges and Good Practices(SIPRI, Stockholm:December 2019)
- Measuring Illicit Arms and Financial Flows: Improving the Assessment of Sustainable Development Goal 16(SIPRI, Stockholm:July 2019)
- The Challenge of Software and Technology Transfers to Non-proliferation Efforts: Implementing and Complying with Export Controls(SIPRI, Stockholm:April 2018)
- Arms Transfer and SALW Controls in the Middle East and North Africa: Mapping Capacity-building EffortsNovember 2018)
- Export Controls, Human Security and Cyber-surveillance Technology: Examining the Proposed Changes to the EU Dual-use RegulationDecember 2017)
- ATT-related Activities in Latin America and the Caribbean: Identifying Gaps and Improving CoordinationFebruary 2017)
- Internal compliance and export control guidance documents for transport or distribution service providersJuly 2017)
- Internal compliance and export control guidance documents for the defence and aerospace sectorJuly 2017)
- Challenges and good practices in the implementation of the EU’s arms and dual-use export controls: A cross-sector analysisJuly 2017)
- Internal compliance and export control guidance documents for actors from academia and researchJuly 2017)
- Internal compliance and export control guidance documents for the information and communications technology sectorJuly 2017)
- Internal compliance and export control guidance documents for the nuclear sectorJuly 2017)
- ATT-related Outreach Assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Identifying Gaps and Improving CoordinationFebruary 2016)
- The Dual-use Export Control Policy Review: Balancing Security, Trade and Academic Freedom in a Changing World(SIPRI, Stockholm:March 2016)
- Western Arms Exports to ChinaJanuary 2015), 68 pp.
- Canada's Controls on Arms Exports to ChinaJanuary 2015), 4 pp.
- Norway's Controls on Arms Exports to ChinaJanuary 2015), 4 pp.
- Implementing the Arms Trade Treaty: Building on Available Guidelines and Assistance ActivitiesMay 2015), 24 pp.
- Arms Trade Treaty Assistance: Identifying a Role for the European Union(SIPRI, Stockholm:February 2014)
- The Arms Trade Treaty: Challenges for the First Conference of States Parties September 2014), 12 pp.
- Transfers of Small Arms and Light Weapons to Fragile States: Strengthening Oversight and ControlJanuary 2013), 20 pp.
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2012March 2013), 8 pp.
- China's Exports of Small Arms and Light WeaponsOctober 2013), 56 pp. ; 50 pp.
- Current trends in the international arms trade and implications for SwedenOctober 2013), 32pp
- Measuring International Arms TransfersDecember 2012), 8 pp.
- The Review of the EU Common Position on Arms Exports: Prospects for Strengthened Controls(SIPRI, Stockholm:January 2012)
- Transparency in Military Spending and Arms Acquisitions in Latin America and the CaribbeanJanuary 2012), 49 pp.
- Implementing an Arms Trade Treaty: Mapping Assistance to Strengthen Arms Transfer ControlsJuly 2012), 20 pp.
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2011March 2012), 8 pp.
- Transit and Trans-shipment Controls in an Arms Trade TreatyJuly 2011), 12 pp.
- Import Controls and an Arms Trade TreatyJuly 2011), 12 pp.
- Implementing an Arms Trade Treaty: Lessons on Reporting and Monitoring from Existing MechanismsJuly 2011)
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2010March 2011), 8 pp.
- National Reports on Arms ExportsMarch 2011), 8 pp.
- Internal Compliance ProgrammesOctober 2011), 56pp.
- The EU common position on arms exports and national export control policiesSeptember 2011), 88pp.
- The Development of National and Regional Reports on Arms Exports in the EU and South Eastern EuropeSeptember 2011), 50pp.
- End-user Certificates: Improving Standards to Prevent DiversionMarch 2010), 16 pp.
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2009March 2010), 8 pp.
- Arms Transfers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Assessing the System of Arms Transfer Notifications, 2008–10October 2010), 12 pp.
- The Limitations of European Union Reports on Arms Exports: The Case of Central AsiaSeptember 2010), 20 pp.
- SIPRI Arms Transfers Data, 2008April 2009), 8 pp.
- Recent Trends in the Arms TradeApril 2009), 24 pp.
External publications
- Bromley, M., Understanding European Arms Export Controls: Material Interests and Competing Norms, PHD Thesis, June 2022.
- Bromley, M.,‘A search for common ground: export controls on surveillance technology and the role of the EU’ About:intel, 12 Feb. 2020.
- Bromley, M., ‘Sweden’s arms export controls: Balancing support and restraint’ in Laurence Lustgarten, Law and the Arms Trade: Weapons, Blood and Rules (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020).
- Bauer, S., Bromley, M., and Maletta, G.,‘The further development of the Common Position 944/2008/CFSP on arms exports control’, European Parliament Policy Department for External Relations, July 2018.
- Bromley, M., ‘EU Arms Transfers and Export Control Policies’, in Hugo Meijer and Marco Wyss (eds.) ‘The Handbook of European Armed Forces’, (OUP, 2018).
- Bauer, S., Bromley, M., and Maletta, G., ‘The implementation of the EU arms export control system’ EU Directorate-General for External Policies Department, 30 May 2017.
- Bromley, M. and Duchatel, M., ‘Influence by default: Europe’s impact on military security in East Asia’, European Council on Foreign Relations, 16 May 2017.
- Bromley, M., Jan Steenhoek, K. Halink, S. and Wijkstra, E., 'ICT Surveillance Systems: Trade Policy and the Application of Human Security Concerns', Strategic Trade Review, Spring 2016.
- Bromley, M., 'End-Use Controls: Recent Technology Developments and Emerging Trends', Security and Peace, 33 (2), July 2015.
- Bromley, M., and Dermody, L., 'Adressing the Unauthorized Re-export or Re-Transfer of Arms and Ammunition', SEESAC, June 2014.
- Bromley, M., Chapter 7, 'The European Union', in Olawale Ismail and Elisabeth Sköns (eds.) Security Activities of External Actors in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2014).
- Bromley, M., Cooper, N. and Holtom, P., 'The UN Arms Trade Treaty: arms export controls, the human security agenda and the lessons of history', International Affairs, vol. 88, no. 5, 2012, pp. 1029-1048.
- Bromley, M., 'Prosecuting Illicit Arms Brokers: Improving the European Record', International Relations and Security Network - ETH Zurich, 4 Sep. 2012.
- Bromley, M., 'Vad är syftet med nya kriterier? [What is the purpose of the new criteria?]', Svenska Dagbladet, 13 Mar. 2012.
- Bromley, M., 'Arms Brokering Controls and a Future ATT', UNIDIR Resources, April 2011.
- Bromley, M. and Guevara, I. 'Arms modernization in Latin America', in: Tan, A. T. H. (ed.) 'The Global Arms Trade: A Handbook', (Routledge, UK; London, 2010), pp. 166-177.
- Holtom, P. and Bromley, M., 'The International Arms Trade: Difficult to Define, Measure, and Control', Arms Control Today, July/August 2010.
- Bromley, M. and Brzoska, M. ‘Towards a common, restrictive EU arms export policy? The impact of the EU Code of Conduct on major conventional arms exports’, European Foreign Affairs Review, vol. 13, no. 3 (Sep. 2008).
- Bromley, M., ‘10 years down the track: the EU Code of Conduct on arms exports’, European Security Review, no, 39 (July 2008).