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| The global arms industry: US companies dominate the Top 100; Russian arms industry moves to second place |
| SIPRI released new data on the world’s largest arms-producing and military services companies—the SIPRI Top 100. The report found that the total arms sales of the SIPRI Top 100 in 2017 were 2.5 per cent higher than in 2016, representing an increase of 44 per cent since 2002. Translations of the press release are available in Catalan, French, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. |
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Read the press release | Download the SIPRI Fact Sheet | Browse the SIPRI Arms Industry Database
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| The landscape of arms control: Perspectives from Russia—new film series from SIPRI |
| SIPRI is pleased to present a new series of films that provide Russian perspectives on the landscape of arms control. The interviewees give their assessments of the current obstacles facing the arms control agenda and ways to overcome them. The interviews were recorded in Moscow in October 2018 during a conference co-hosted by SIPRI and IMEMO. The conference celebrated 25 years of translation of the SIPRI Yearbook into Russian. |
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Read more | Watch the series | Read about the conference in Moscow
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| SIPRI launches new report on nuclear security at two events in Washington |
| On the occasion of the launch of a new SIPRI report, Nuclear Security in the Black Sea Region: Contested Spaces, National Capacities and Multinational Potential, SIPRI co-hosted two events in Washington, DC. The meetings included a closed briefing for United States Senate working staff and was held in cooperation with the Fissile Material Working Group. |
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Read more | Download the report
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| SIPRI at conference commemorating the 150th anniversary of the St Petersburg Declaration |
| Ambassador Jan Eliasson, Chair of the SIPRI Governing Board, participated in an international conference to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the St Petersburg Declaration. Eliasson delivered a key-note speech at a panel discussion where he addressed the current trends of humanitarian action and the role that SIPRI plays to make the world a safer place. |
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| COMMENTARY |
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| Saudi Arabia, armaments and conflict in the Middle East |
| This topical backgrounder puts a spotlight on armament developments in Saudi Arabia, the country with the highest levels of military spending and arms imports in the Middle East. It aims to contribute to the efforts by SIPRI to gain a better understanding of the impact of militarization on security, conflict, peace and development in the region. |
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| Key actions to reduce nuclear security risk in the Black Sea region |
| This SIPRI essay outlines nuclear security concerns in the Black Sea region and proposes key actions that governments can take to reduce nuclear security risk. |
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Read the SIPRI essay
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| Peace Points: 2018 in retrospect |
| In the final episode of 2018, Dan Smith takes a retrospective look back at major developments in international peace and security this year. |
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Watch the Peace Points episode [6m16s]
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| RECENT EVENTS |
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| 17 December 2018 |
| Panel debate on the relationship between hunger and conflict |
| SIPRI, in cooperation with the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme, the UN Association of Sweden and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, hosted a panel debate on the theme ‘Faces of hunger and conflict’, followed by a photo exhibition. The panel debate focused on UN Security Council Resolution 2417, which acknowledges the link between hunger and conflict. |
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| 13 December 2018 |
| SIPRI co-organizes strategic roundtable with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr Denis Mukwege |
| SIPRI, together with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Karolinska Institute, organized a strategic roundtable in honour of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr Denis Mukwege. The discussion focused on identifying and assessing what the international community can do to effectively respond to sexual violence in conflict. |
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Read more | Read SIPRI’s statement on the announcement of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
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| 5–7 December 2018 |
| SIPRI co-hosts workshop on nuclear spent fuel strategies and shared security concerns |
| SIPRI, together with the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, hosted the second in a series of workshops on trilateral dialogue between Japan, South Korea and the USA on nuclear spent fuel strategies and shared security concerns. The workshop covered the connections between nuclear energy policy decisions and the three countries’ shared regional security concerns, including the challenge of nuclear spent fuel management in North Korea. |
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| JOB VACANCIES |
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| SIPRI Internships |
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SIPRI has a continuous open call for internships in its research and support departments.
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| PUBLICATIONS |
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| The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies, 2017 |
| Arms sales of the world’s 100 largest arms-producing and military services companies (the SIPRI Top 100) totalled $398.2 billion in 2017. This was an increase of 2.5 per cent compared with 2016 and marks the third consecutive year of growth in Top 100 arms sales. This Fact Sheet lists the SIPRI Top 100 for 2017 from the updated SIPRI Arms Industry Database and describes trends in international arms sales that are revealed by the new data. |
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| Nuclear security in the Black Sea region: Contested spaces, national capacities and multinational potential |
| This SIPRI Policy Paper offers a comprehensive overview of perceptions of nuclear security risks in the wider Black Sea region, along with a detailed assessment of how the level and nature of those risks have changed in Ukraine since 2014. |
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| State services in an insecure environment: Perceptions among civil society in Mali |
| This SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security provides Malian perceptions of the state as a provider of essential services to the population. The paper is based on the results of a questionnaire conducted in March 2017. |
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| Shifting Black Sea security dynamics |
| SIPRI is pleased to release a series of publications focused on various aspects of security in the Black Sea region. The series includes; six Background Papers mapping the developments in each of the Black Sea littoral states, a SIPRI Insights paper covering frozen conflicts in the region and a Policy Paper on collective security. The Policy Paper, Rebuilding Collective Security in the Black Sea region by Dr Neil J. Melvin is featured here. The publications within the series can be found on SIPRI’s publications page. |
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Read the publication | Read more publications from the series
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| Managing complexity: Addressing societal security challenges in the Baltic Sea region |
| On 11–12 June 2018, SIPRI and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden co-hosted the conference ‘Managing complexity: Addressing societal security challenges in the Baltic Sea region’. This conference report details the findings from the three plenary sessions and six breakout sessions held during the event. |
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| SIPRI Yearbook 2018 |
The 49th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook is a compendium of data and analysis in the areas of security and conflicts; military spending and armaments; and non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament. It also features sections on:
- debt, oil price and military expenditure;
- international non-proliferation sanctions against North Korea;
- allegations of chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria.
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