The SIPRI Update for April 2014 is out now—read it online, or subscribe to receive the SIPRI Update in your inbox each month.
In this issue we present an essay by Aude Fleurant on future challenges in the monitoring of international arms transfers. She writes:
In April 2014 SIPRI merged its Arms Transfers Programme and its Arms Production Project. Under one umbrella, the new SIPRI Arms Transfers and Arms Production Programme is well placed to address the interplay of these dynamics and issues related to them and, at the same time, to maintain the quality and integrity of the data for which each programme has historically been known.
Read the essay online or browse the full list of SIPRI Essays from 2009 to 2013.