Dr Diego Lopes da Silva

Senior Researcher

Dr Diego Lopes da Silva

Dr Diego Lopes da Silva is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme. He holds a PhD in Peace, Defense and International Security Studies from the São Paulo State University, Brazil. His current research concerns the interplay between institutions, political transitions and military spending. He has also published on the arms trade and arms production.

Subject expertise

Arms Trade, Military Expenditure

Regional expertise

South America

CONTACT Dr Diego Lopes da Silva

Languages

Portuguese, English

Education

PhD in International Relations, São Paulo State University; Master’s degree in Peace, Defense and International Security, São Paulo State University, Brazil

Citizenship

Brazil

SIPRI COMMENTARY

Iraq since the invasion: 20 years in SIPRI data (Topical backgrounder, March 2023 )
Autocracy is on the rise: Should we expect military spending to follow? (Topical backgrounder, October 2020 )
Ending off-budget military funding: Lessons from Chile (Topical backgrounder, December 2019 )
The crucial role of the military in the Venezuelan crisis (Topical backgrounder, April 2019 )
Improving South American military expenditure data (Topical backgrounder, September 2017 )

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

Tian, N., Lopes da Silva, D., Liang, X., Scarazzato, L., Béraud-Sudreau, L. and Assis, A., Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2022 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2023)
Liang, X., Scarazzato, L., Béraud-Sudreau, L., Tian, N., Lopes da Silva, D., Choi, Y. and Kristjan Sild, E., The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2022 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2023)
Using Taxation to Fund Military Spending (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 2023)
Lopes Da Silva, D., Tian, N., Béraud-Sudreau, L., Marksteiner, A. and Liang, X., Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2021 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2022)
Béraud-Sudreau, L., Liang, X., Lopes da Silva, D., Tian, N. and Scarazzato, L., The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2021 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
Lopes da Silva, D., Tian, N. and Marksteiner, A. , Pathways for Reducing Military Spending in Post-civil Conflict Settings (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 2022)
Lopes da Silva, D., Tian, N. and Marksteiner, A., Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2020 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2021)
Marksteiner, A., Béraud-Sudreau, L., Tian, N., Lopes da Silva, D. and Kuimova, A., The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2020 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
Tian, N., Kuimova, A., Lopes da Silva, D., Wezeman, P. D. and Wezeman, S. T., Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2019 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2020)
Tian, N. and Lopes da Silva, D., Military Spending and Official Development Assistance in Recipient States: Is there a Relationship? (SIPRI, Stockholm: August 2020)
Béraud-Sudreau, L., Marksteiner, A., Lopes da Silva, D., Tian, N., Kuimova, A., Wezeman, P. D and Wezeman, S. T. , Mapping the International Presence of the World’s Largest Arms Companies (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2020)
Emerging Suppliers in the Global Arms Trade (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2020)
Wezeman, P. D., Fleurant, A., Kuimova, A., Lopes Da Silva, D., Tian, N. and Wezeman, S. T., Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2019(Stockholm: (March 2020)
The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2018 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2019)

5. Military expenditure and arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2023)
8. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2022)
8. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2021)
9. International arms transfers and developments in arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2020)
8. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2020)
4. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2018)
9. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2017)

External publications

Silva, D. L., Political Accountability and Military Spending, Defence and Peace Economics, 1-18 (2022).
Tian, N., Lopes da Silva, D. and Kuimova, A., Military Spending and the Achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in UNODA Occasional Papers no. 35, Rethinking Unconstrained Military Spending, pp. 21-37, United Nations, New York (2020)
Silva, D. L., Reassessing Brazil's Arms Industry. In: Hartley, K.; Belin, J. (ed), The Economics of the Global Defence Industry, New York: Routledge (2019)
Silva, D. L., Filling arms production data gaps: South America as a case in point, Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 13(2), 20–27 (2018)
Silva, D. L., Dependência da Importação de Insumos para a Defesa: Uma Breve Análise do Caso Colombiano [Arms Import Dependence: A Brief Analysis of the Colombian Case]. Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Defesa. Vol. 3, No 1, (2016)
Saint Pierre, H. L. and Silva, D. L., A Torre de Babel Sul-Americana: A Importância da Convergência Conceitual para a Cooperação em Defesa [The South American Babel Tower: The Importance of Conceptual Convergence to Defense Cooperation]. In: Érica C. A. Winand; Israel Roberto Barnabé; Lucas M. Pinheiro. (Org.). Relações Internacionais. 1 ed. Brasília: Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão, p. 43-66 (2014)
Saint Pierre, H. L. and Silva, D. L., Percepções de Segurança Regional no Âmbito da UNASUL: O Conselho Sul-Americano de Defesa [Regional Security Perceptions Within UNASUR: The South American Defense Council]. In: Luis Fernando Ayerbe. (Org.). Territorialidades e Entrecruzamentos Geopolíticos na América Latina. 1ed.São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica, v. 1, p. 220-244 (2014)
Silva, D. L., Metodologias de Transparência Militar: Aportes Técnicos e Teóricos sobre o Caso Sul-Americano [Military Transparency Methodologies: Technical and Theoretical Approaches to the South American Case]. Cadernos de Campo, V. 2, No 1 (2014)