In 1964, Prime Minister Tage Erlander of Sweden put forward the idea of establishing a peace research institute to commemorate Sweden’s 150 years of unbroken peace. A Swedish Royal Commission chaired by Ambassador Alva Myrdal proposed in its 1966 report to establish this institute, later named the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI. The Institute’s research should seek to contribute to “the understanding of the preconditions for a stable peace and for peaceful solutions of international conflicts” and the Commission recommended that research be concentrated on armaments, their limitation and reduction, and arms control. The Commission also recommended that SIPRI work be of “an applied research character directed toward practical-political questions [which] should be carried on in a constant interchange with research of a more theoretical kind.”
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Date: December 2013Title: China's Exports of Small Arms and Light Weapons
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Date: June 2013Title: The Proliferation Security Initiative: Legal Considerations and Operational Realities
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Date: November 2012Title: Verifying a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty: Technical and Organizational Considerations
Authors: Shannon N. Kile, Robert E. Kelley
Date: August 2012Title: The Arctic policies of Canada and the United States: domestic motives and international context
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Date: July 2012Title: Implementing an arms trade treaty: mapping assistance to strengthen arms transfer controls
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Date: July 2012Title: Military capabilities in the Arctic
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Date: March 2012Title: Transparency in Military Spending and Arms Acquisitions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Authors: Mark Bromley, Carina Solmirano
Date: January 2012Title: Maritime Transport and Destabilizing Commodity Flows
Authors: Hugh Griffiths, Michael Jenks
Date: January 2012Title: Arms Flows to Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Pieter D. Wezeman, Siemon T. Wezeman, Lucie Béraud-Sudreau
Date: December 2011Title: Towards a regional security regime for the middle east
Date: October 2011Title: Israeli arms transfers to sub-Saharan Africa
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Date: October 2011Title: China's Energy and Security Relations with Russia: Hopes, Frustrations and Uncertainties
Authors: Linda Jakobson, paul holtom, Dean Knox, Jingchao Peng
Date: October 2011Title: New social media and conflict in Kyrgyzstan
Authors: Neil Melvin, Tolkun Umaraliev
Date: August 2011Title: Transit and trans-shipment controls in an arms trade treaty
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Date: July 2011Title: Import controls and an arms trade treaty
Authors: Mark Bromley, paul holtom
Date: July 2011Title: Implementing an Arms Trade Treaty: Lessons on Reporting and Monitoring from Existing Mechanisms
Authors: paul holtom, Mark Bromley
Date: July 2011Title: Conflict Minerals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Aligning Trade and Security Interventions
Authors: Ruben de Koning
Date: June 2011Title: Ukrainian arms supplies to sub-Saharan Africa
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Date: February 2011Title: The limitations of European Union reports on arms exports: the case of Central Asia
Authors: paul holtom, Mark Bromley
Date: September 2010Title: New Foreign Policy Actors in China
Authors: Linda Jakobson, Dean Knox
Date: September 2010Title: The Terrorist Threat and the Policy Response in Pakistan
Authors: Aarish Ullah Khan
Date: September 2005Title: The European Security Strategy: An Evolutionary History
Authors: Alison J. K. Bailes
Date: February 2005Title: Private Security Companies: The Case for Regulation
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Date: January 2005Title: The European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports: Improving the Annual Report
Authors: Sibylle Bauer, Mark Bromley
Date: November 2004Title: SIPRI Yearbook 2004: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Pocket-size Summary Edition)
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Date: September 2004Title: Sizing and Shaping European Armed Forces Lessons and Considerations from the Nordic Countries
Authors: William Hopkinson
Date: March 2004Title: Relics of Cold War: Europe's Challenge, Ukraine's Experience
Authors: Ian Anthony, Alyson J.K. Bailes, Oleksiy Melnyk
Date: November 2003Title: Non–Compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention: Lessons from and for Iraq
Authors: Richard Guthrie, John Hart, Frida Kulah, Jean Pascal Zanders
Date: October 2003Title: The Future of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms
Authors: Siemon T. Wezeman
Date: August 2003Title: Armament and Disarmament in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Authors: Alyson J. K. Bailes, Björn Hagelin, Zdzislaw Lachowski, Sam Perlo-Freeman, Petter Stålenheim, Dmitri Trofimov
Date: July 2003Title: Anti-terrorism and Peace-building During and After Conflict
Authors: Ekaterina Stepanova
Date: June 2003Title: The Adapted CFE Treaty and the Admission of the Baltic States to NATO
Authors: Zdzislaw Lachowski
Date: December 2002Title: Maintaining the Effectiveness of the Chemical Weapons Convention
Authors: John Hart, Frida Kuhlau, Ronald Sutherland, Jean Pascal Zanders
Date: October 2002Title: Biotechnology and the Future of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
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Date: November 2001Title: The New Security Dimensions: Europe after the NATO and EU Enlargements
Authors: Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Date: April 2001Title: SIPRI Yearbook 1997
Authors: Agnes Allebeck, Ian Anothony, Eric Arnett, Vladimir Baranowsky, Julian Cooper, Susanna Eckstein, Ragnhild Ferm, Trevor Findlay, Paul George, John Hart, Peter Jones, Shannon Kile, Zdzislaw Lachowski, Adam Rotfeld, Elisabeth Skons, Margareta Sollenberg, Peter Wallensteen, Eva Maria Weintraub, Pieter Wezeman, Siemon Wezeman, Jean Zanders
Date: June 1997