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SIPRI Update: Global Security & Arms Control

The November issue of SIPRI Update includes:

Evan Medeiros writing on ‘Comparing regionalism in Asia and Europe’
announcement of the launch of the new version of the FIRST database
reports on SIPRI events in Ankara, Berlin, Brussels, London and Stockholm

along with the SIPRI fact of the month, SIPRI in the media and the latest SIPRI publications.

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New SIPRI Policy Paper

Chemical and Biochemical Non-lethal Weapons: Political and Technical Aspects
SIPRI Policy Paper No. 23
by Ronald G. Sutherland

This Policy Paper describes and analyses biological and chemical substances that have the potential to be used as weapons or can improve the efficacy of other, more traditional, weapons.

New SIPRI Policy Brief

South Ossetia and Abkhazia: placing the conflict in context
SIPRI Policy Brief
by Ekaterina Stepanova

International discourse related to the August conflict in and around South Ossetia has been dominated by comparisons between Kosovo and South Ossetia and the Russia–West ‘strategic rivalry’ framework. This Policy Brief argues for the need to go beyond these simplistic frameworks.

Trends in war, peace and arms

SIPRI Yearbook 2008 launch, London, 4 November
Lord Malloch-Brown, Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Professor Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics
Dr Bates Gill, Dr Sam Perlo-Freeman, SIPRI

Speaking at a presentation of the finding contained in SIPRI Yearbook 2008, Mark Malloch Brown commented on its usefulness for those engaged in ‘practical foreign policy’.

More about the Yearbook
Order the Yearbook
Download Yearbook summaries in English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Swedish
An audio podcast of the event will be soon be available on the LSE website

New SIPRI Insights paper

Stemming destabilizing arms transfers
SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security No. 2008/3
by Hugh Griffiths and Mark Bromley

Air safety regulations are an underutilized but potentially promising tool for stemming the flow of destabilizing arms transfers. This paper examines the impact of EU air safety regulations on the activities of air cargo operators that are suspected of being involved in destabilizing arms transfers.

EU-27 Watch

The European research network EU-CONSENT, of which SIPRI is a member, published the latest edition of its biannual report, EU-27 Watch, in October 2008. Based on surveys in EU member and candidate states, it gives a comparative picture of debates on European integration and current developments in European politics. Topics discussed include:

The EU after the Irish referendum.
French Presidency and the future of the EU.
Public opinion and European integration.
Political leadership in the EU.
Concentric circles around the EU?
The first ten years of the Euro.
Other current issues of high salience in the member states.

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Recent SIPRI publications

SIPRI Yearbook 2008: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
Terrorism in Asymmetrical Conflict SIPRI Research Report no. 23	Reforming Nuclear Export Controls SIPRI Research Report no. 22	Europe and Iran SIPRI Research Report no. 21
Chemical and Biochemical Non-lethal Weapons SIPRI Policy Paper no. 23	Transparency in Transfers of Small Arms and Light Weapons SIPRI Policy Paper no. 22	The Impact on Domestic Policy of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports SIPRI Policy Paper no. 21
Stemming destabilizing arms transfers SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security no. 2008/3	Resource–conflict links in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security no. 2008/2	The private military services industry SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security no. 2008/1
Humanitarian Military Intervention	Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa	The Nordic Countries and the European Security and Defence Policy
The Effectiveness of Foreign Military Assets in Natural Disaster Response	United Nations Arms Embargoes	Tools for Building Confidence on the Korean Peninsula