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Professor Julian Cooper
Associate Senior Fellow
Professor Julian Cooper is an Associate Senior Fellow with the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme. He is also Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham Centre for Russian, Eurasian and European Studies.
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SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Military spending in Russia’s draft federal budget for 2027 to 2029 (Topical backgrounder, )
- How much does Russia spend on nuclear weapons? (Topical backgrounder, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- A Budget for a Fifth Year of War: Military Spending in Russia’s Budget for 2026 (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2026)
- Preparing for a Fourth Year of War: Military Spending in Russia’s Budget for 2025 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2025)
- Another Budget for a Country at War: Military Expenditure in Russia’s Federal Budget for 2024 and Beyond (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2023)
- Russia’s Military Expenditure During Its War Against Ukraine (SIPRI, Stockholm: June 2023)
- Implementation of the Russian Federal Budget during January–July 2022 and Spending on the Military (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2022)
External publications
- Cooper, J., Prospects for military spending in Russia in 2017 and beyond, working paper (University of Birmingham; Birmingham, 23 Mar. 2017).