Project members

Siemon T. Wezeman, Acting Project Leader

(The Netherlands, b.1963) studied history at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (the Netherlands) and received his doctorandus (MA) title in 1989. He joined the Arms Transfers Project in August 1992 as a Research Assistant and was promoted to Researcher in 1998. He has contributed to the chapters on arms transfers in the SIPRI Yearbooks since 1993 and had the main responsibility for the arms transfers chapter in the SIPRI Yearbook 1998.

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Selected publications by Siemon T. Wezeman:

• 'Arms & Conflicts in Africa. Myths and realities of proliferation and disarmament', paper for the Common Security Forum Meeting on Africa, Stockholm, 17-18 Nov. 1997.
• (w. Pieter Wezeman), 'Trends in Global Transfers of Surplus Major Conventional Weapons', background paper for Conversion Survey 1997 (Bonn International Center for Conversion/Oxford University Press: London,1997).
• (w. Pieter Wezeman), 'Nederland en de toekomst van ontwapeningen wapenbeheersing [The Netherlands and the future of disarmament and armscontrol]', Internationale Spectator (The Hague, Nov. 1997).
• 'Developing an arms register; The SIPRI experience', eds Bates Gill and J. N. Mak, J.N., SIPRI, Arms, Transparency and Security in South-East Asia (Oxford University Press, London, 1997).
• (w. Pieter Wezeman), Dutch Surplus Weapons (electronic Internet publication), (Bonn International Center for Conversion: Bonn, 1996).
• (w. John Sislin), 'Worldwide Arms deliveries', Jane's Intelligence Review (July 1995).
• (w. Bates Gill and J. N. Mak), 'ASEAN Arms Acquisitions:Developing Transparency' Joint SIPRI/MIMA (Malaysian Institute of Maritime Affairs) publication, 1995.
• (w. Pieter Wezeman), 'Ontwikkelingen in de InternationaleWapenhandel [Developments in the International Arms Trade]', Internationale Spectator (The Hague), Feb. 1995.
• (w. John Sislin), '1994 Arms Transfers. A Register of Deliveries From Public Sources' Joint SIPRI/MIIS (Monterey Instituteof International Relations) publication, 1995.
• (w. Edward J. Laurance and Herbert Wulf), 'SIPRI, ArmsWatch. SIPRI Report on the First Year of the UN Register of Conventional Arms' SIPRI Research Report No. 6. (Oxford University Press: Oxford,1993)

Dr. Paul Holtom, Researcher

(United Kingdom, b.1975) received his BA in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Liverpool in 1996. He also holds a MA and PhD in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Birmingham (awarded in 1998 and 2003 respectively). Since 2003 he has been a research fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald (Germany) and the Centre for Border Studies at the University of Glamorgan (UK). He has also been an 'international expert' for the Council of Europe's transfrontier co-operation programme on the Kaliningrad oblast' and lead researcher on SALW projects in Northeastern and Southeastern Europe for Saferworld. He joined the Arms Transfers Project in September 2006.

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Selected publications by Dr. Paul Holtom:

• Small Arms Production in Russia (London: Saferworld, 2007)
• 'An Assessment of Operation Safe Place’, Connections: The Quarterly Journal, Vol. V, No. 2, Fall 2006, pp. 111-20
• “An Assessment of the Baltic States Contribution to EU Efforts to Prevent Proliferation and Combat Illicit Arms Trafficking”. In: David Brown and Alistair Shepherd (eds.): The Security Dimensions of EU Enlargement: Challenges for the 21st Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press (Forthcoming 2006).
• Turning the Page: Small Arms and Light Weapons in Albania. London: Saferworld, 2005.
• “The Baltic States, Arms Brokers and Diversions of Arms”. In: Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review 2004, Vilnius: Lithuanian Military Academy & University of Vilnius, 2005, pp. 99-112. [Published in Lithuanian as: “Baltijos Valstyb_s: Ginkl_ Prekybos Tarpininkai ir Nelegalus Ginkl_ Gabenimas”, Lietuvos Metin_ Strategin_ Ap_valga 2004, Vilnius: Lietuvos Karo Akademija & Vilniaus Universiteto, 2005, 111-25].
• “Exploring the Utility of the Gatekeeper 'Hinge' Concept for the Promotion of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian New/Postmodern Security Agendas”. In: David Smith (ed.) The Baltic States and their Region: New Europe or Old? Amsterdam & New York: Rodopoi, 2005, pp. 293-312.
• “The Kaliningrad Test in Russian-EU Relations”. In: Perspectives on European Politics and Societies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2005, pp. 31-54.
• Arms Transit Trade in the Baltic Sea Region. London: Saferworld, 2003.
• “Measures to Address Some of the Issues Concerning the Kaliningrad Oblast and Its Inhabitants.” In: Bartosz Cichocki (ed.): Kaliningrad in Europe: a reasoned approach to selected issues. A study commissioned by the Council of Europe, 2003, pp. 115-38.

Pieter D. Wezeman, Researcher

(The Netherlands, b. 1969) worked from 2003 to 2006 for the Ministry of Defence of the Netherlands as a senior analyst in the field of arms proliferation. From 1994 to 2003 he worked at SIPRI as a member of the Arms Transfers Project. He holds an MA degree in political science from the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands).

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Mark Bromley, Research Associate

(United Kingdom, b.1977) worked as a Policy Analyst on the Nuclear Weapons Programme of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) and as a Volunteer at Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) before joining SIPRI in September 2003. Mark earned his Bachelor of Arts from St John's College, Cambridge and his Masters Degree from the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

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Tel: +46-8-6559736

Selected publications by Mark Bromley:

• (w. Catalina Perdomo) 'CBMs in Latin American and the effect of arms acquisitions by Venezuela' Real Instituto Elcarno Working Paper, September 2005
• (w. Sibylle Bauer) 'The European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports: Improving the Annual Report' SIPRI Policy Paper, November 2004
• (w. David Grahame and Christine Kucia) 'Bunker Busters: Washington's Drive for New Nuclear Weapons' BASIC Research Report, July 2002
• (w. Nicola Butler) 'Secrecy and Dependence: The UK Trident System in the 21st Century' BASIC Research Report, November 2001
• 'European Missile Defence: New Emphasis, New Roles' BASIC Paper, May 2001
• 'Shaping the New Strategic Framework' PENN Newsletter, November 2001

Hugh Griffiths, Researcher

(United Kingdom, b.1972) worked from 1995 until 2007 for governments, UN and non-governmental organisations in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, conducting investigative field analysis and research on issues surrounding clandestine political economy, conflict and small arms. He holds a BA from the University of Sussex and an MPhil in International Political Economy from the University of Amsterdam. He has written regular reports for the Institute of War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), Jane's Intelligence Review and Foreign Report.

• "Serbia: Choosing between Profit and Security", Contemporary Security Policy, volume 29, issue 1, April, 2008
• (w. Aaron Karp) "Ukraine: Coping with Post-Soviet Legacies", Contemporary Security Policy, volume 29, issue 1, April, 2008
• (w. Adrian Wilkinson) "Guns, Planes, Ships: Identification and Disruption of Clandestine Arms Transfers", South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC), United Nations Development Program, ISBN-978-86-7728-069-7
• "Trans-national Organized Crime: Identifying and Tackling a Growing Threat", Peace & Conflict Monitor, United Nations University for Peace, March 2007
• "The New Transporters of Weapons of Mass Destruction", Peace & Conflict Monitor, United Nations University for Peace, February 2007
• (w. Matthew Bolton) "Bosnia's political landmines: A call for socially responsible and conflict sensitive mine action", Landmine Action, London, 2007, ISBN-10: 0-9551923-2-3
• (w. Oliver Sprague) "The AK-47: the world's favourite killing machine" Control Arms, Oxfam GB, 2006
• "Chapter 8 - Brokering a covert arms supply operation" in Dead on Time - arms transportation, brokering and the threat to human rights, Amnesty International, 2006
• "Smoking Guns: Cigarette Smuggling into the European Union during the 1990s", Global Crime, Routledge, Volume 1. Issue 1.2, Spring 2005
• "Evidence Gathering - The Role of NGOs", Crimes of War Magazine, Crimes of War Project, May 2001
• "A Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict: Ethno-nationalism and Organised Crime", Civil Wars, Routledge, Volume 2, Issue 2.2, Summer 1999

Noel Kelly, Project Assistant

(United Kingdom) joined the Arms Transfers project in December 2007. Before that he was an intern with the SIPRI Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Project. In 2006, he graduated with a BA degree in History and Politics from Goldsmiths College, University of London. In 2007, he completed the Master's programme in History of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Dr. Björn Hagelin, Project Leader

(Sweden, b.1947) (on leave until August 2008) began his academic studies (BA) in political science/international politics at the Stockholm University. From 1970 to 1987 he worked as security and defence policy analyst at the Swedish Defence Research Establishment (FOA), Stockholm. He was then researcher at the department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University (Sweden), 1987-98, where he received a Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Research in 1997. He became Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Research in 1998. Björn Hagelin contributed to a number of SIPRI publications, including the SIPRI Yearbook 1984, before taking up the position of Project Leader of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Project in September 1998. He is presently on a leave of absence until August 2008.

Selected publications by Dr. Björn Hagelin:

- Monographs:

• One For All or All For One? Pentagon tapping of foreign science and technology , Report No. 42 (Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala, 1997).
• Arm in Arm: Swedish-Australian military-industrial cooperation and arms sales (Australian National University Press: Canberra, 1994).
• Neutrality and Foreign Military Sales. Military production and sales restrictions in Austria , Finland, Swedenand Switzerland (Westview Press: Boulder, 1990).
• Kulorna rullar: Ekonomi och politik kring svensk militär export , (Ordfront förlag: Stockholm, 1985).
• Militärindustriellt samarbete i Västeuropa (Centralförbundet Folk och Försvar, serien Försvaroch Säkerhetspolitik: Stockholm, 1977).

- Other recent publications:

• ‘From certainty to uncertainty – Sweden’s armament policy in transition’, in Markowski, S. and Hall, P. (eds.), Defence procurement and industrial policy. A small country perspective, London and New York: Routledge (forthcoming 2007).
• ‘Hardware politics, Hard politics or where, politics’, in Bailes, A. J. K. (ed.), The Nordic countries and the European security and defence policy, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2006).
• ‘La politique d'armement de la Suède en transition’ /Sweden’s armament policy in transition, Défense Sécurité Internationale (2006) http://www.defense-presse.com.
• ‘International armament embargoes and the need for end-use documents’, in Wallensteen, P. & Staibano, C. (eds.), International sanctions: Between words and wars in the global system, Frank Cass Publishers 2005.
• Kritiken av säkerhetspolitiska kritiker: ett försök att skriva om Sveriges historia /The critique of security policy critics an attempt to re-write Sweden’s history, Internasjonal Politikk (Oslo),Vol. 12, No. 4, 2005
• ‘Nordic Offset Policies: changes and challenges’, in Brauer, J. and Dunne, P. (eds.), Arms Trade and Economic Development. Theory, policy, and cases in arms trade offsets, London and New York: Routledge 2004.
• 'Internationellt materielutvecklingssamarbete' / International equipment development cooperation), ch. In Materiel för miljarder (Equipment for billions, report by Riksrevisionen, the Swedish National Audit Agency, RIR 2004:6, pp. 89-110.

Natasza Nazet, Project Secretary

(France/Poland, b.1976) (on leave until June 2007) studied English Literature and Civilisation at the University of South Brittany in France, graduating in June 1998. She worked as a French teacher in London in 1998-1999. She also worked as a customer service agent for a Swedish paper company during 2000-2001. In 2002 she studied Swedish, before starting at SIPRI, as secretary to the arms production, arms transfers and military expenditure projects in January 2003. Natasza is responsible for the maintenance of the archives, the Arms Transfers Project's web pages and for the SIPRI reporting system of military expenditure. She has contributed to the 2003 and 2004 SIPRI Yearbook for the Military Expenditure Project.




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