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Dr Diego Lopes da Silva
Senior Researcher
Dr Diego Lopes da Silva
Dr Diego Lopes da Silva is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme. He holds a PhD in Peace, Defense and International Security Studies from the São Paulo State University, Brazil. His current research concerns the interplay between institutions, political transitions and military spending. He has also published on the arms trade and arms production.
Subject expertise
Arms Trade, Military Expenditure
Regional expertise
South America
CONTACT Dr Diego Lopes da Silva
Languages
Portuguese, English
Education
PhD in International Relations, São Paulo State University; Master’s degree in Peace, Defense and International Security, São Paulo State University, Brazil
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Iraq since the invasion: 20 years in SIPRI data (Topical backgrounder, )
- Autocracy is on the rise: Should we expect military spending to follow? (Topical backgrounder, )
- Ending off-budget military funding: Lessons from Chile (Topical backgrounder, )
- The crucial role of the military in the Venezuelan crisis (Topical backgrounder, )
- Improving South American military expenditure data (Topical backgrounder, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2023 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2024)
- 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)
- Using Taxation to Fund Military Spending (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 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)
- Pathways for Reducing Military Spending in Post-civil Conflict Settings (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 2022)
- Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2020 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2021)
- The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2020 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
- Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2019 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2020)
- Military Spending and Official Development Assistance in Recipient States: Is there a Relationship? (SIPRI, Stockholm: August 2020)
- 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)
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2019(Stockholm: (March 2020)
- The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2018 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2019)
External publications
- Scarazzato, L., Liang, X., Tian, N., & Lopes da Silva, D. Developments in Arms Production and the Effects of the War in Ukraine. Defence and Peace Economics, pp. 1–21, (2024).
- Silva, D. L., Political Accountability and Military Spending, Defence and Peace Economics, 1-18 (2022).
- Tian, N., Lopes da Silva, D. and Kuimova, A., Military Spending and the Achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in UNODA Occasional Papers no. 35, Rethinking Unconstrained Military Spending, pp. 21-37, United Nations, New York (2020)
- Silva, D. L., Reassessing Brazil's Arms Industry. In: Hartley, K.; Belin, J. (ed), The Economics of the Global Defence Industry, New York: Routledge (2019)
- Silva, D. L., Filling arms production data gaps: South America as a case in point, Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 13(2), 20–27 (2018)
- Silva, D. L., Dependência da Importação de Insumos para a Defesa: Uma Breve Análise do Caso Colombiano [Arms Import Dependence: A Brief Analysis of the Colombian Case]. Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Defesa. Vol. 3, No 1, (2016)
- Saint Pierre, H. L. and Silva, D. L., A Torre de Babel Sul-Americana: A Importância da Convergência Conceitual para a Cooperação em Defesa [The South American Babel Tower: The Importance of Conceptual Convergence to Defense Cooperation]. In: Érica C. A. Winand; Israel Roberto Barnabé; Lucas M. Pinheiro. (Org.). Relações Internacionais. 1 ed. Brasília: Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão, p. 43-66 (2014)
- Saint Pierre, H. L. and Silva, D. L., Percepções de Segurança Regional no Âmbito da UNASUL: O Conselho Sul-Americano de Defesa [Regional Security Perceptions Within UNASUR: The South American Defense Council]. In: Luis Fernando Ayerbe. (Org.). Territorialidades e Entrecruzamentos Geopolíticos na América Latina. 1ed.São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica, v. 1, p. 220-244 (2014)
- Silva, D. L., Metodologias de Transparência Militar: Aportes Técnicos e Teóricos sobre o Caso Sul-Americano [Military Transparency Methodologies: Technical and Theoretical Approaches to the South American Case]. Cadernos de Campo, V. 2, No 1 (2014)