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SIPRI Yearbook 2008 - Arms Transfers Chapter

The Arms Transfers Chapter from the SIPRI Yearbook 2008 is now available. The Chapter details the main developments in the international arms trade during 2007. Points covered include:
  • The volume of international arms transfers and the financial value of the international arms trade.
  • Key transfers from the five leading arms suppliers: the USA, Russia, Germany, France, and the UK.
  • Arms acquisitions by countries in South America and fears over a regional arms race.
  • Arms transfers to areas of conflict, including Afghanistan and Sudan.
SIPRI Yearbook 2008 - Chapter 7. International arms transfers
By Paul Holtom, Mark Bromley, and Pieter D. Wezeman
summary - full text (pdf - 204kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 2008 - Appendix 7.A. The suppliers and recipients of major conventional weapons
The SIPRI Arms Transfers Project
summary
SIPRI Yearbook 2008 - Appendix 7.B. The financial value of the arms trade
By Mark Bromley
summary
SIPRI Yearbook 2008 - Appendix 7.C. Sources and methods for arms transfers data
The SIPRI Arms Transfers Project
summary - full text (pdf - 68kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 2008 - Register of transfers of major conventional weapons, 2007
The SIPRI Arms Transfers Project
full text (pdf - 732kb)
Full details of the SIPRI Yearbook 2008 are available here.
Access to the SIPRI Arms Transfers Datatabase is available here.
Information on the financial value of the international arms trade is available here.


Previous SIPRI Yearbook Chapters

SIPRI Yearbook 2007 - Chapter 10. International arms transfers
By Siemon T. Wezeman, Mark Bromley, Damien Fruchart, Paul Holtom and Pieter D. Wezeman
full text (pdf - 276kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 2007 - Appendix 10.C. Towards an arms trade treaty?
By Paul Holtom and Siemon T. Wezeman
summary
SIPRI Yearbook 2006 - Chapter 10. International arms transfers
By Björn Hagelin, Siemon T. Wezeman and Mark Bromley
full text (pdf - 1.2mb)
SIPRI Yearbook 2005 - Chapter 10. International arms transfers
By Siemon T. Wezeman and Mark Bromley
full text (pdf - 1.2mb)
SIPRI Yearbook 2004 - Chapter 9. Science-and-technology-based military innovation: the United States and Europe
By Björn Hagelin
full text (pdf - 129kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 2004 - Chapter 12. International arms transfers
By Björn Hagelin, Mark Bromley and Siemon T. Wezeman
full text (pfd - 386kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 2003 - Chapter 13. International arms transfers
By Björn Hagelin, Pieter D. Wezeman, Siemon T. Wezeman and Nicholas Chipperfield
full text (pdf - 150kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 2002 - Chapter 8. International arms transfers
By Björn Hagelin, Pieter D. Wezeman, Siemon T. Wezeman and Nicholas Chipperfield
full text (pdf - 229kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 2001 - Chapter 5. Transfers of major conventional weapons
By Björn Hagelin, Pieter D. Wezeman, Siemon T. Wezeman and Nicholas Chipperfield
full text (pdf - 87kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 2000 - Chapter 7. Transfers of major conventional weapons
By Björn Hagelin, Pieter D. Wezeman, and Siemon T. Wezeman
full text (pdf - 85kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 1999 - Chapter 11. Transfers of major conventional weapons
By Björn Hagelin, Pieter D. Wezeman, and Siemon T. Wezeman
full text (pdf - 93kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 1998 - Chapter 8. Transfers of major conventional weapons
By Siemon T. Wezeman and Pieter D. Wezeman
full text (pdf - 65kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 1997 - Chapter 9. The trade in major conventional weapons
By Ian Anthony, Pieter D. Wezeman and Siemon T. Wezeman
full text (pdf - 51kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 1996 - The Arms Transfers Chapter from the SIPRI Yearbook 1996 is currently unavailable. More information on the SIPRI Yearbook 1996 is available here.
SIPRI Yearbook 1995 - Chapter 14. The trade in major conventional weapons
By Ian Anthony, Pieter D. Wezeman and Siemon T. Wezeman
full text (pdf - 118kb)
SIPRI Yearbook 1994 - The Arms Transfers Chapter from the SIPRI Yearbook 1994 is currently unavailable. More information on the SIPRI Yearbook 1994 is available here.
SIPRI Yearbook 1993 - The Arms Transfers Chapter from the SIPRI Yearbook 1993 is currently unavailable. More information on the SIPRI Yearbook 1993 is available here.
Full details of previous SIPRI Yearbooks are available here.


Other SIPRI publications by Arms Transfers Project members

The Impact on Domestic Policy of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports: The Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Spain
By Mark Bromley
Policy Paper No. 21
May 2008, 58 pages
Available here.
United Nations Arms Embargoes: Their Impact on Arms Flows and Target Behaviour
By Damien Fruchart, Dr. Paul Holtom, Siemon T. Wezeman (SIPRI) and
Daniels Strandow and Professor Peter Wallensteen (Uppsala University)
A Report by SIPRI and the Uppsala University Special Program on the Implementation of Targeted Sanctions
November 2007, 57 pages
Available here.
The European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports: Improving the Annual Report
By Sibylle Bauer and Mark Bromley
Policy Paper No. 8
November 2004, 74 pages
Available here.
The Future of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms
By Siemon T. Wezeman
Policy Paper No. 4
August 2003, 42 pages
Available here.
Armament and Disarmament in the Caucasus and Central Asia
By Alyson J. K. Bailes, Björn Hagelin, Zdzislaw Lachowski, Sam Perlo-Freeman, Petter Stålenheim and Dmitri Trofimov
Policy Paper No. 3
July 2003, 64 pages
Available here.
Full details of all SIPRI publications are available here.


Other publications by Arms Transfers Project members

Small Arms Production in Russia
By Paul Holtom
Saferworld Report, March 2007, 68 pages. (pdf - 556kb)
CBMs in Latin America and the Effect of Arms Acquisitions by Venezuela
By Mark Bromley and Catalina Perdomo
Real Instituto Elcano Working Paper No. 41, September 2005, 19 pages. (pdf - 368kb)
Cluster Weapons: Necessity or Convenience?
By Reinhilde Weidacher, Siemon Wezeman, and Micha Hostelle
Pax Christi Netherlands June 2005, 58 pages. (pdf - 584kb)
Conflicts and Transfers of Small Arms
By Pieter D. Wezeman
March 2003, 39 pages. (pdf - 216kb)

SIPRI's 'Conflicts and Transfers of Small Arms Project' was funded by the Swedish Foreign Ministry and pursued as an Arms Transfers sub-project from 2000 to 2003. The final report was delivered to the Swedish Foreign Ministry in April 2003. For more information please contact the Arms Transfers Project.
Publication histories of the Project members are available here.