Gerd Hagmeyer-Gaverus

Economics and Political Science at the University of Stuttgart, the University of Tübingen, the Free University Berlin and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI).

Research

• The evaluation and implementation of political decision making
• Electorate behavior (the Green parties in Europe)
• Supportive information systems
• World military expenditure
• The global arms trade

Present research interest

• Early warning indicators
• Illicit traffic of Small Arms
• Information warfare
• Information systems and fact databases in International Relations and Security
• The European Arms trade
• The impact of information technology on the political decision making process

Recent publications

• Record-keeping,Comments and additional viewpoints, Paper presented at the Franco-Swiss Workshop on Tracability of Small Arms and Light Weapons: Tracing, Marking and Record Keeping, Geneva, 12 – 13 March 2001
• Internet access to the FIRST database system, Gerd Hagmeyer-Gaverus and Niklas Oxeltoft, Hiroshima Research News, Vol 2 No.3 March 2000
  
• The European Arms Trade: Trends and Patterns, Ian Anthony and Gerd Hagmeyer-Gaverus, in: European Security edited by Wilfried von Bredow, Thomas Jäger and Gerhard Kümmel, MacMillan Press, 1997
  
• Information Needs and Information Processing in the field of International Security, in: Increasing Access to Information Technology for International Security, edited by Péricles Gasparini Alves, UNIDIR, 1997
  
• Fast Information Retrieval in International Relations Research: The Internet database aproach,in: UNIDIR Newsletter Number 30/95, 1996
  
• Co-author of chapters on world military expenditure and on arms production in the SIPRI Yearbooks 1985-1997

Ongoing project

'Integrating Fact Databases in the field of international relations and security', a joint project of SIPRI and the International Relations and Security Network (ISN), Center for Security Studies at the ETH, Zürich.

'An Internet based Early Warning Indicators System for Preventive Policy'.

Others

Board member of the European Information Network on International Relations and Area Studies (EINIRAS).

Member of the Advisory Board for the Project Global Information AcessNet (GIANT) at the University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA.