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In the latest SIPRI Essay, SIPRI Director Tilman Brück discusses the challenges ahead for the SIPRI Yearbook. He writes:
As an economist looking at issues of conflict and security, I am constantly surprised to recall that my discipline only started to study the role of violence in the repertoire of human behaviour and interaction after the end of the cold war. This is despite the devastating economic (and human) consequences of the wars of the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the foundations of modern economics were laid.
Brück concludes:
The SIPRI Yearbook has for almost five decades provided a narrative on global security developments, building on SIPRI’s unique ability to gather, collate and interpret relevant trends. The time may be ripe to ask how this narrative can be developed to further enhance knowledge on and policies for security and peace.