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Pieter D. Wezeman
POSITION AT SIPRI
Senior Researcher
Pieter D. Wezeman
Pieter D. Wezeman is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Transfers and Military Expenditure Programme. His area of research is the global production and proliferation of conventional arms with a special focus on military expenditure and arms procurement in and arms transfers to the Middle East and Africa. He also monitors multilateral arms embargoes and maintains the SIPRI database on that issue.
Subject expertise
Arms flows to and arms procurement and military expenditure in Africa and the Middle East; German arms exports; global developments in arms transfers; proliferation of missiles and other long range strike systems; arms embargoes; small arms and light weapons
CONTACT Pieter D. Wezeman
Phone number
+46 766 286 192
Citizenship
Netherlands
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Saudi Arabia, armaments and conflict in the Middle East (Topical backgrounder, December 2018)
- Increased international transparency in military spending is possible (Topical backgrounder, October 2017)
- The state of major arms transfers in 8 graphics (Blog, February 2017)
- The 2015 UN Register on Conventional Arms: still time to improve (Expert comment, September 2015)
- Balancing transparency and national security (Essay, January 2014)
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Trends in world military expenditure, 2018 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2019)
- Trends in international arms transfers, 2018 (SIPRI: March 2019)
- Military spending and arms imports by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2019)
- The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies, 2017 (SIPRI: December 2018)
- Trends in international arms transfers, 2017 (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2018)
- Trends in world military expenditure, 2017 (SIPRI: May 2018)
- Military expenditure transparency in sub-Saharan Africa (SIPRI: November 2018)
- Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2016 (SIPRI: April 2017)
- The SIPRI Top 100 arms‑producing and military services companies, 2016 (SIPRI: December 2017)
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2016 (SIPRI: February 2017)
- Trends in world military expenditure, 2015 (April 2016)
- The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies, 2015 (SIPRI: December 2016)
- Trends in international arms transfers, 2015 (SIPRI: February 2016)
- Trends in world military expenditure, 2014 (SIPRI: April 2015), 8 pp.
- The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies, 2014 (SIPRI: December 2015), 8 pp.
- Trends in international arms transfers, 2014 (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2015), 8 pp.
- The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies, 2012 (SIPRI: January 2014), 8 pp.
- Trends in international arms transfers, 2013 (SIPRI: March 2014), 8 pp.
- Trends in international arms transfers, 2012 (SIPRI: March 2013), 8 pp.
- Trends in international arms transfers, 2011 (SIPRI: March 2012), 8 pp.
- Arms Flows to Sub-Saharan Africa (SIPRI: December 2011), 49 pp.
- South African arms supplies to sub-Saharan Africa (SIPRI: January 2011), 16 pp.
- Conventional strategic military capabilities in the Middle East (July 2011), 15
- Arms exports to Sudan (March 2011), 95
- Trends in international arms transfers, 2010 (SIPRI: March 2011), 8 pp.
- Trends in international arms transfers, 2009 (SIPRI: March 2010), 8 pp.
- Military spending and arms procurement in the Gulf states (SIPRI: October 2010), 4 pp.
- Arms flows and the conflict in Somalia (SIPRI: October 2010), 12 pp.
- Arms transfers to Central, North and West Africa (SIPRI: April 2009), 16 pp.
- SIPRI arms transfers data, 2008 (SIPRI: April 2009), 8 pp.
- Recent trends in the arms trade (SIPRI: April 2009), 24 pp.
- Arms flows to the conflict in Chad (SIPRI: August 2009), 12 pp.
- Arms transfers to East and Southern Africa (SIPRI: December 2009), 8 pp.
- 4. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2019)
- 5. International arms transfers and developments in arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2019)
- 10. Dual-use and arms trade controls (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2019)
- 5. International arms transfers and developments in arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2018)
- 10. Dual-use and arms trade control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2018)
- 4. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2018)
- 15. Dual-use and arms trade controls (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2017)
- 3. Armed conflict and instability in the Middle East and North Africa (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2017)
- 9. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2017)
- 19. Dual-use and arms trade controls (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2016)
- 10. International arms transfer and developments in arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2017)
- 2. The armed conflicts in Syria and Iraq (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2015)
- 9. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2015)
- 10. International arms transfers and arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2015)
- 15. Dual-use and arms trade controls (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2015)
- 1. Aspects of the conflict in Syria (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2014)
- 4. Military expenditure and arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2014)
External publications
- Wezeman, P. D., 'International arms flows: monitoring, sources and obstacles', Clingendael Report, Jan. 2018
- Wezeman, P. D., 'Arms exports and developments in the Middle East’ and ‘Improvised Explosive Devices', in Literature review for the Policy and Operations Evaluations Department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aug. 2017
- Wezeman,P.D., (lead author) Industrial analysis of CDP priority actions in the field of protection of forces in theatre, C-IED and C-CBRNE capabilities, European Defence Agency, 2016
- Wezeman, P. D., Conventional strategic military capabilities in the Middle East, in: WMD Arms Control in the Middle East, Ashgate, 2015
- 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 Apr. 2011
- Holtom, P., and Wezeman, P. D., 'Arms exports to Sudan', Written evidence submitted for the UK House of Lords’ EU Sub-Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Policy inquiry into the European Union’s Conflict Prevention Role in Sudan, Mar. 2011