Where does Israel receive its arms imports from? SIPRI Researcher Zain Hussain explains Israel's role in the arms trade. Watch now 🎥
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Global arms trade increased by almost 10% due to surge in European demand. @otimesbrasil quotes SIPRI's new arms transfers data in this article:
timesbrasil.com.br/mundo/fluxo-gl…
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Out today! New SIPRI insights on 🇷🇺Russia’s military spending and budget for 2026.
As the Russia–Ukraine War enters its fifth year, SIPRI has published a paper that provides unique insights into Russia’s military spending and budget. In the paper, author Professor Julian Cooper OBE looks at Russia’s federal budget funding of the war and how it has changed over time.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4sD1aTr
Read the paper ➡️doi.org/10.55163/BVBD7…
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Join SIPRI's Caroline Delgado for a seminar on 'Humanitarianism at Stake: Ethics, Neutrality, and Testimony in Crisis' organized by the Centre for Health Crises at Karolinksa Institutet.
🗓️ 21 May 2026, 16:30–19:30
📍 The Cell, Hagaesplanaden 4, Stockholm
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4rElySL
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Earlier this month, SIPRI participated in the @raisinadialogue 2026, a major international conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics held in New Delhi, India.
Karim Haggag, SIPRI Director, contributed to several discussions during the conference, and Dr Caroline Delgado, SIPRI Programme Director, moderated the panel discussion ‘Recipes for Resilience: Food Security and Geopolitics’.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4uTReXd
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'Morocco has increased its arms imports by 12% between 2016–20 and 2021–25, becoming the top arms importer in Africa'—SIPRI data quoted in this North Africa Post article: bit.ly/4uBtvdW
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This paper by @gretchenbaldwin explores how men and boys can be considered in the WPS agenda’s implementation beyond simply ‘adding men and stirring’.
Read it now ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/RVPD4…
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SIPRI Researcher Zain Hussain discusses arms importers to the Middle East and the role of Gulf Arab states.
Read a Q&A with Zain Hussain and @PWezeman from the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme on the role of imported arms in the Iran war ➡️ bit.ly/4rCEG3g
#SIPRI #ArmsTrade #Iran #MiddleEast #DefenseIndustry #GlobalSecurity
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What can the latest SIPRI arms transfers data tell us about how arms imports have featured in the Iran war?
In this new Q&A, Zain Hussain and @PWezeman of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme discuss this and the implications for arms supplies beyond the region.
Read it now ➡️ bit.ly/4rCEG3g
#Iran #ArmsTransfers #MiddleEast #ArmsTrade
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SIPRI’s latest data on international arms transfers featured in this Spiegel article:
spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
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During this year's @MunSecConf, SIPRI Director Karim Haggag and Director of Studies Sibylle Bauer spoke to @vottak_tv's Event Horizon programme on the collapse of the nuclear order and a new age of armaments.
Watch the interview ⬇️youtube.com/watch?v=gj8XfW…
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SIPRI's most recent data quoted in this Security Risks Asia article on India's defence industry ⬇️
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Improving India’s Defence Indigenisation Ranking: Interview with SIPRI expert security-risks.com/post/improving… As India continues to languish in the top two nations for arms imports globally, a conversation with SIPRI expert Siemon T Wezeman provides perspectives and how India could shed this “distinction”.
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New external publication: SIPRI's Caroline Delgado has written the chapter 'Conflict, Climate and Crisis: Rethinking Food Security in a Fragile World' in 'Environmental Security: Approaches, Issues and Actors': bit.ly/3Pn56Zs
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This recent SIPRI essay by Dr Jiayi Zhou and Dr Barbara Magalhães Teixeira explores the growing trend towards resource mercantilism among the great powers and lays out some of the resulting perils that face the global rest.
Read it now ➡️ bit.ly/4b9INxJ
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SIPRI Senior Researcher @PWezeman explains how US arms exports strengthen global influence, serving as both a foreign policy tool and a driver of the US defence industry. Watch now🎥
#SIPRI #ArmsTransfers #ArmsTrade
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📣 HAPPENING SOON: How can the Human Security tradition inform our approaches to domestic and global security in a changing geopolitical landscape? SIPRI, together with @nupinytt and @UNhumansecurity
invite you to follow the Oslo Human Security Dialogue.
💻 Stream here: youtube.com/live/tcURJCCSg…
🗓️ 16 March 2026, 15:00–17:00 CET
🎙️ @kari_osland, Knut Vollebaek, Julie Marie Borna Fossem, Odd Gleditsch, @EirikMofoss and @CedricdeConing
@UN @UNhumansecurity @NORCEresearch @DSB_no @Langsikt_
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For the first time in two decades, the largest share of 🇺🇸 US arms exports went to Europe in 2021–25 (38%).
Read the press release ➡️ bit.ly/4laXOnH
#ArmsTransfers #GlobalArmsTrade #ArmsData #SIPRIData #Peace
Note: The boundaries used in this map do not imply any endorsement or acceptance by SIPRI. Data refers to transfers of major arms during the five-year period 2021–25.
Sources: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, Mar. 2026.
doi.org/10.55163/SAFC1…; and George, M., Djokic, K., Hussain, Z. et al., ‘Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2025’, SIPRI Fact Sheet, Mar. 2026. doi.org/10.55163/OSMS3….
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As the conflict in #Iran intensified, global leaders gathered last week in New Delhi to debate what comes next. Harsh Pant and SIPRI Director Karim Haggag share the takeaways in this podcast episode by @ChicagoCouncil. Listen now 🎧 globalaffairs.org/commentary/pod…
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"The reality is the United States is the biggest disruptor. It's the biggest disruptor of global geopolitics. It's the biggest disruptor of global norms," Karim Haggag, director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (@SIPRIorg) said on this week's episode of the Deep Dish podcast. He joined Harsh V. Pant, vice president of the Observer Research Foundation (@orfonline) and Council President and CEO Leslie Vinjamuri to share takeaways from this year's @raisinadialogue and discuss how the world is reading the Iran conflict in this moment. Listen to the full episode: bit.ly/3NAjCMX
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