Siemon T. Wezeman

(The Netherlands, b.1963)

Siemon T. Wezeman studied history at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (the Netherlands) and received his doctorandus (MA) title in 1989. He joined the Arms Transfers Programme 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.

Selected publications:

"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.

"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) (with Pieter Wezeman)

"Nederland en de toekomst van ontwapeningen wapenbeheersing [The Netherlands and the future of disarmament and armscontrol]," Internationale Spectator (The Hague, Nov. 1997) (with Pieter Wezeman)

"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)

Dutch Surplus Weapons (electronic Internet publication), (Bonn International Center for Conversion: Bonn, 1996) (with Pieter Wezeman)

 "Worldwide Arms deliveries," Jane's Intelligence Review (July 1995) (with John Sislin)

"ASEAN Arms Acquisitions:Developing Transparency," Joint SIPRI/MIMA (Malaysian Institute of Maritime Affairs) publication, 1995 (with Bates Gill and J. N. Mak)

"Ontwikkelingen in de InternationaleWapenhandel [Developments in the International Arms Trade]," Internationale Spectator (The Hague), Feb. 1995 (with Pieter Wezeman)

"1994 Arms Transfers. A Register of Deliveries From Public Sources," Joint SIPRI/MIIS (Monterey Institute of International Relations) publication, 1995 (with John Sislin)