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Dr Lucie Béraud-Sudreau
Programme Director (on leave)
Dr Lucie Béraud-Sudreau
Dr Lucie Béraud-Sudreau joined SIPRI in February 2020 as the Director of the Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme. Her research interests focus on European and Asian arms trade, military spending and arms industry. Lucie was previously a Research Fellow for Defence Economics and Procurements at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and an analyst at the French ministry of Armed Forces.
Subject expertise
Arms industry and arms production, defence industrial policies, arms market trends analysis, arms export policies
Regional expertise
Europe, Asia
Languages
English, French
Education
PhD Dissertation, ‘Support or control? The politics of arms sales in France and Sweden (1990-2015)’, University Paris-2 Panthéon-Assas, France (2017)
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- A new political forum could help make the EU’s strategic trade controls more strategic—if it is allowed to (Essay, )
- Arming autocracies: Arms transfers and the emerging Biden doctrine (Blog, )
- Reassessing SIPRI’s military expenditure estimate for the United Kingdom (Topical backgrounder, )
- COVID-19: A new wave of European arms industry consolidation? (Essay, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2022 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2023)
- The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2022 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2023)
- Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2021 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2022)
- The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2021 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
- Arms-production Capabilities in the Indo-Pacific Region: Measuring Self-reliance (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2022)
- A Practical Guide to State Participation in the UN Report on Military Expenditures (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2022)
- The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2020 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
- Mapping the International Presence of the World’s Largest Arms Companies (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2020)
- Emerging Suppliers in the Global Arms Trade (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2020)
- Transparency in Arms Procurement: Limitations and Opportunities for Assessing Global Armament Developments (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2020)
- Arms Flows to Sub-Saharan Africa (December 2011) 49 pp.
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2010 (March 2011) 8 pp.
- Reporting to the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms (May 2011) 8 pp.
External publications
- Béraud-Sudreau, L., 'Vers l'augmentation accélérée des des dépenses militaires en Europe', Le Rubicon (22 March 2022)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L. and Huxley, T., 'Strategic outlooks and languishing institutions in Southeast Asia’, in Brendan Taylor (ed.), Asia’s New Geopolitics. Military Power and Regional Order, Routledge: Adelphi Series (2021)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L., 'Covid-19 as an opportunity for European Armament Cooperation?', IRSEM Research Paper, No. 111 (January 2021)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L., 'From economic to strategic crisis: European military expenditure and procurement in the 2010s', ed A. Tan, Research Handbook on the Arms Trade (Elgar Elsevier Publishing: Cheltenham, 2020)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L., 'Dépenses militaires en Europe dans les années 2010 et leçons pour l’ère post-Covid 19', Revue Defense Nationale, no 832, 2020, pp.21-26
- Béraud-Sudreau, L., and Nouwens, M., ‘Assessing Chinese defence spending: proposals for new methodologies’, IISS Research Paper (March 2020)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L., and Pannier, A. ‘An improbable Paris-Berlin-commission triangle’: usages of Europe and the revival of EU defense cooperation, Journal of European Integration (2020)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L., French arms exports: the business of sovereignty, Adelphi Series, London: Routledge/IISS (2020)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L., Building Franco-German consensus on Arms Exports, Survival, Vol.61, no. 4, pp.79-98 (2019)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L. and Nouwens, M., Weighing Giants: Taking Stock of the Expansion of China’s defence industry, Defence and Peace Economics (June 2019)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L. and Giegerich, B., NATO Defence Spending and European Threat Perceptions, Survival, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp.53-74 (2018)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L., Les exportations d’armement dans un nouvel environnement stratégique : Quels contrôles dans
des marchés de défense en mutation ?, Champs de Mars, Vol.30, No.2 (May 2018) - Béraud-Sudreau, L., Meijer, H. et al, Arming China: Major Powers’ Arms Transfers to the People’s Republic of China, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 41, No. 5, p.850-886 (2018)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L. and Meijer, H., Enjeux stratégiques et économiques des politiques d’exportation d’armement : une comparaison franco-américaine, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, Vol.23, No. 1, p.57-84 (2016)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L., Faure, S., and Sladeczeck, M., Réguler le commerce des armes par le Parlement et l’opinion publique. Comparaison du contrôle des exportations en Allemagne, France, Royaume-Uni et Suède, Politique Européenne, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp.28-67 (2015)
- Béraud-Sudreau, L., Un changement politisé dans la politique de défense : le cas des ventes d’armes, Gouvernement et Action Publique, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp .79-103 (2014)