SIPRI Yearbook 2013 – from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). This is a leading resource for annual round ups of information and facts and facts on all aspects of international security, peace and disarmament worldwide. The full text is for subscribers only, however there is a free summary
Sipri does offer free access to a wealth of other information via their website. They have in beta a new data portal which has great visualizations on international arms transfers, world military expenditure, the arms and military services industry and multilateral peace operations.
Also available separately the Military expenditure database 1988-2012 covers 172 nations worldwide
Arms transfer database from 1950 onwards.
Another good source of data on this topic is the United Nations office for Disarmament Affairs. The yearbook is available online from 2002 onwards. The website also has a has a disarmament resolutions and decisions database, and United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, a Database of the texts and status of treaties and agreements
and the United Nations Report on Military Expenditures.
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