Pieter D. Wezeman
Born: 1969
Citizenship: Dutch
Position at SIPRI:
Senior Researcher, SIPRI Arms Transfer Programme
Subject expertise: Arms flows to and arms procurement in India, Pakistan, China, Africa and the Middle East; global developments in arms transfers; proliferation of missiles and other long range strike systems in the Middle East; arms embargoes.
Regional expertise:
Africa, Middle East
Languages:
Dutch, English, German, Swedish
Education:
MA in political science, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Contact: Email Phone: +46 8 655 97 40
Pieter D. Wezeman is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. His area of research is the global proliferation of conventional arms with a special focus on arms procurement in and arms transfers to China, India, Pakistan and the Middle East.
Former positions
- Senior analyst in the field of arms proliferation at the Dutch Ministry of Defence
Recent publications
- Wezeman, P.D., Wezeman S.T. and Béraud-Sudreau, L., 'Arms Flows to sub-Saharan Africa', SIPRI Policy Paper no. 30, December 2011
- Wezeman, P.D., 'Conventional strategic military capabilities in the Middle East', EU Non-Proliferation Consortium 6 July 2011
- Gill, B., and Wezeman, P.D., 'Halte au cynicisme! Il faut un commerce des armes plus responsable' [Stop the cynicism! We need a more responsible arms trade], Le Monde, 20 April 2011
- Holtom, P., and Wezeman, P.D., 'Arms exports to Sudan', Written evidence submitted for The House of Lords’ EU Sub-Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Policy inquiry into the European Union’s Conflict Prevention Role in Sudan, March 2011
- Wezeman, P.D., 'South African arms supplies to sub-Saharan Africa', SIPRI Background Paper, January 2011
- Wezeman, P.D., 'Arms Flows and the Conflict in Somalia', SIPRI Background Paper, October 2010
- Solmirano, C. and Wezeman, P.D., 'Military spending and arms procurement in the Gulf states', SIPRI Fact Sheet, October 2010
- Wezeman, P.D., ‘Arms Flows to the Conflict in Chad’, SIPRI Background Paper, Aug. 2009
- Wezeman, P.D., ‘Arms transfers to Central, North and West Africa’, SIPRI Background Paper, April 2009
- Wezeman P.D., ’Arms transfers to East and Southern Africa’, SIPRI Background Paper, June 2009
- Contributions to the SIPRI Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmaments and International Security (Oxford University Press) since 1995
