Peacekeeping operations, Brexit and the Stockholm Security Conference

SIPRI at 50—A Year of Reflection on Peace and Security: How peace operations are changing

SIPRI released the seventh film in its short-film series 2016—A Year of Reflection. The film features SIPRI Researchers Xenia Avezov and Timo Smit discussing current trends in peace operations and how SIPRI's data and analysis can inform decision-makers.

Watch the seventh film or see the whole series thus far on SIPRI's YouTube channel.

This film series is produced in cooperation with Different Films Limited.

Brexit and export controls: Entering uncharted waters
 

The UK's vote to leave the EU will have strong implications for its export controls. SIPRI's Mark Bromley looks at how easily the UK could extract its own export control legislation from EU regulations and whether this could lead to increased arms exports, both by the UK and EU member states.

Read the topical backgrounder.

Transparency and accountability in military spending

SIPRI's military expenditure data is regarded as some of the best in the world. In this topical backgrounder, Dr Sam Perlo-Freeman, Head of SIPRI's Military Expenditure Project, looks at why transparency and accountability are so important in military spending, and the major problem of corruption in the military.

Read the topical backgrounder.

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Following the exciting new redesign of its website, SIPRI is now aiming to improve its monthly newsletter: the SIPRI Update.

Please give your feedback on what you find useful or not in this newsletter and what improvements you'd like to see in future via the online survey.

How Brexit could be bad news for peace—see what’s new on SIPRI’s blog WritePeace

Brexit: Bad news for peace?

Read all earlier WritePeace blog contributions.

New SIPRI publication on space activities

SIPRI issued the EU Non-proliferation paper No. 51: The security of space activities by Gerard Brachet.

The secure and sustainable use of outer space has become a concern. More than 60 nations and regional governmental organizations operate satellites in Earth orbit and a large number of private companies operate commercial satellite systems. The number of systems deployed in low Earth orbit and on the geostationary ring creates new risks of interference and of physical collision.

Several initiatives have emerged in recent years to establish the ‘rules of the road’ in outer space, including work from China and Russia, the EU and the UN General Assembly. Despite this flurry of activity, disagreements persist and no concrete measures have been agreed so far. If it wants to be a significant actor, the EU needs to step up its efforts to reinforce its voice in international discussions on the security of outer space activities.

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SIPRI Yearbook 2015

The 46th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook is a compendium of data and analysis in the areas of security and conflicts; military spending and armaments; and non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament. It covers developments during 2014, including:

• aspects of the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine;
• regional military-security trends in East Asia;
• military spending in the USA;
• the continued negotiations regarding Iran's nuclear programme; and
• the entry into force of the Arms Trade Treaty.

Download a summary of the SIPRI Yearbook 2015.

Browse the contents page.