Dr Sibylle Bauer

Director of Studies

Dr Sibylle Bauer

Dr Sibylle Bauer is the Director of Studies, Armament and Disarmament, at SIPRI, with responsibility for SIPRI’s work on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; dual-use and arms trade control; emerging technologies; and arms production, arms transfer and military expenditure. She is also the current Chair of the EU Nonproliferation and Disarmament Consortium. Previously, she managed SIPRI’s Dual-use and Arms Trade Control Programme. In that capacity, she designed and implemented capacity-building activities in Europe and South East Asia. Dr Bauer joined SIPRI in 2003.

Subject expertise

Export control (national control systems, international regimes, enforcement issues); non-proliferation; transparency of arms transfers

Regional expertise

European Union, South East Europe, South East Asia

CONTACT Dr Sibylle Bauer

Languages

German, English, French

Education

PhD in Political Science, Free University of Brussels (ULB) and Free University of Berlin. Diplom (MA) in Political Science, Free University of Berlin

SIPRI COMMENTARY

The logic of avoiding nuclear war (Essay, January 2022 )
‘Rules of the Road’ for the Arms Trade Treaty agreed in Cancun but stiffer tests lie ahead (Expert comment, August 2015 )
For the bathroom or the missile factory? Why dual-use trade controls matter (Essay, December 2012 )
Punishing acts of WMD proliferation: more easily said than done (Essay, May 2009 )

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

Maletta, G. and Bauer, S., Taking Stock of the Arms Trade Treaty: International Assistance to Support Implementation (August 2021)
Bauer, S. and Bromley, M., Detecting, Investigating and Prosecuting Export Control Violations: European Perspectives on Key Challenges and Good Practices (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2019)
Brockmann, K., Bauer, S. and Boulanin, V,, Bio Plus X: Arms Control and the Convergence of Biology and Emerging Technologies (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2019)
Setting the Stage for Progress towards Nuclear Disarmament (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2018)
Internal compliance and export control guidance documents for the nuclear sector (July 2017)
Internal compliance and export control guidance documents for transport or distribution service providers (July 2017)
Internal compliance and export control guidance documents for the defence and aerospace sector (July 2017)
Challenges and good practices in the implementation of the EU’s arms and dual-use export controls: A cross-sector analysis (July 2017)
Internal compliance and export control guidance documents for actors from academia and research (July 2017)
Internal compliance and export control guidance documents for the information and communications technology sector (July 2017)
Brockmann, K., Bauer, S., 3D Printing and Missile Technology Controls (November 2017)
Bauer, S. and Bromley, M., The Dual-use Export Control Policy Review: Balancing Security, Trade and Academic Freedom in a Changing World (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2016)
Bauer, S. and Bromley, M., Implementing the Arms Trade Treaty: Building on Available Guidelines and Assistance Activities (May 2015) 24 pp.
Bromley, M., Beijer, P. and Bauer, S., The Arms Trade Treaty: Challenges for the First Conference of States Parties (September 2014) 12 pp.
Bauer, S., WMD-related Dual-use Trade Control Offences in the European Union: Penalties and Prosecutions (SIPRI, Stockholm: July 2013)
Arms Trade Control Capacity Building: Lessons from Dual-use Trade Controls (March 2013) 20 pp.
Bromley, M. and Bauer, S. , The European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports: Improving the Annual Report2004) 66 pp.

9. Global instruments for conventional arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2019)
10. Dual-use and arms trade controls (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2019)
10. Dual-use and arms trade control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2018)
15. Dual-use and arms trade controls (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2017)
19. Dual-use and arms trade controls (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2016)
15. Dual-use and arms trade controls (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2015)
10. Dual-use and arms trade controls (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2014)
10. Dual-use and arms trade controls (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2013)
8. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2012)
11. Strategic trade controls: countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2011)
12. Controls on security-related international transfers (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2010)
12. Controls on security-related international transfers (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2009)
11. Controls on security-related international transfers (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2008)
15. Controls on security-related international transfers (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2007)
16. Transfer controls (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2006)
17. Transfer controls (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2005)
11. Arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2004)
18. Transfer controls and destruction programmes (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2004)

External publications

Bauer, S., New technologies and armament: Rethinking arms control, Clingendael Spectator (July 2020)
Bauer, S., ‘International assistance’, Weapons and International Law: The Arms Trade Treaty (Larcier Law Annotated), eds Clare Da Silva et al. (Larcier: 2015).
Bauer, S., ‘Export controls’, in Routledge Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation and Policy (Routledge, 2015).
Bauer, S., ‘Post-cold war control of conventional arms’, ed A. Tan, The Global Arms Trade: A Handbook (Routledge: London, 2010).
Bauer, S. and Mattiusi, J., ‘Transforming the EU’s approach to outreach and technical assistance in the area of export controls’, A. Ricci (ed), From Early Warning To Early Action? The Debate on the Enhancement of the EU's Crisis Response Capability Continues (Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2008).
Bauer, S., ‘Comparing sanctions and prosecutions related to export control violations in the EU’, Background paper to the UK Parliament Quadripartite Committee, 16 March 2007, with A. Wetter.
Bauer, S., ‘The EU code of conduct on arms exports: enhancing effectiveness’, Eurofuture (Summer 2005).
Bauer, S. and Remacle, E., 'Theory and practice of multi-level foreign policy: the European Union’s policy in the field of arms export controls’, eds T. Christiansen and B. Tonra, Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy (Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2004).
Bauer, S., ‘The Role of parliaments in European arms export policy’, eds J. Mawdsley, M. Martinelli and E. Remacle, Europe and the Global Arms Agenda: Security, Trade and Accountability (Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2004).
Bauer, S., ‘Europe’s arms export policies’, ed. K. von Wogau, A European Defence for the 21st Century (Maklu: Antwerp, 2004).
Bauer, S., ‘The EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports-enhancing the accountability of arms export policies?’, European Security, vol. 12 (2003).
Bauer, S. and Winks, R., ‘The institutional framework for European arms policy co-operation’, eds C. Serfati et al., The Restructuring of the European Defence Industry: Dynamics of Change (European Commission, Directorate General for Research/ Office of Official Publications of the European Union:Luxembourg, 2001).
Bauer, S., ‘L’europeanisation des politiques d’exportation d’armements’ [The Europeanisation of arms export policies], eds S. Sur and J.-J. Roche, Annuaire français de relations internationales (Bruylant: Brussels, 2001).