This SIPRI report examines the 🇪🇺EU’s and 🇯🇵Japan’s de-risking measures to managing economic relations with 🇨🇳China.

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🌍World military expenditure rose by 6.8% to $2443 billion in 2023, the highest level ever recorded by SIPRI. In 2023 #MilitarySpending increased in all five geographical regions for the first time since 2009.

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New military expenditure data, Chinese🇨🇳 and Russian🇷🇺 peacebuilding, Indo-Pacific naval build-up, missile technology controls and more in the April issue of the SIPRI Update newsletter➡️bit.ly/49XKYlw

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Controlling intangible transfers of technology ( #ITT ) and software—including in the context of the #MTCR —is a known challenge, but the growth of the #NewSpace industry and advances in emerging technologies make it a particularly timely topic.
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Later today, SIPRI’s Giovanna Maletta will appear on a panel at TMC Asser Instituut, Global Rights Compliance & C4ADS’s conference on ‘Improving supply chain accountability for #ArmsExports ’.

Registration still open: asser.nl/education-even…

World military expenditure, driven by Russia’s🇷🇺 full-scale invasion of Ukraine🇺🇦 and heightened geopolitical tensions, rose by 6.8% to $2443 billion in 2023, the highest level ever recorded by SIPRI.

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‘The ways in which trends in #space interact with #escalation dynamics remain little understood’—This paper identifies escalation risks and #NuclearRiskReduction at the space–nuclear nexus.

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‘Although #livelihood diversification and women’s economic empowerment can contribute to #peacebuilding , these strategies have not been used to their full potential as peacebuilding tools’—Read more ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/DVDW9…

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Total #MilitaryExpenditure accounted for 2.3% of global GDP in 2023.

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Fact Sheet ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/BQGA2…

Did you miss SIPRI’s live stream for the closing panel of the 2024 #SthlmForum on ‘Intersecting crises, joined-up solutions’?

📺 Watch it here ➡️ youtu.be/He0QmrjMJXE?si…

This SIPRI report explores the future of the #ChemicalWeapons Convention and the role of the Centre for Chemistry and Technology. #CWC

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This SIPRI Report examines the interconnectedness of #FoodInsecurity , climate pressures, and violent conflict, proposing strategies to enhance #peacebuilding within integrated climate-resilient food security interventions ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/NFAX5…

Did you miss SIPRI’s live stream for the plenary session of the 2024 #SthlmForum on ‘Rethinking conflict prevention’? Watch here➡️youtu.be/xwQiM6SRQuY

🎙️د. ماجد محمد الأنصاري Dr. Majed Al Ansari, @ikakoma , Catriona Laing and Heela Yoon, with moderator Per Olsson Fridh

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In 2023 #MilitarySpending increased in all five geographical regions for the first time since 2009.

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‘A new political forum could help make the #EU ’s strategic trade controls more strategic—if it is allowed to’. Read suggestions for how a forum for political coordination could help to coordinate and plug the gaps in the European Union’s🇪🇺 strategic trade controls ➡️

Water management projects can have wider social benefits. This blog examines what it takes to consolidate gains made towards peace by water management projects and thus contribute to sustainable, long-term peace ⬇️

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Did you miss yesterday’s live stream of #SthlmForum 2024? Watch the plenary session on ‘Rethinking conflict prevention’ here ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=xwQiM6…

🎙️ د. ماجد محمد الأنصاري Dr. Majed Al Ansari, @ikakoma, Catriona Laing and Heela Yoon, with moderator Per Olsson Fridh

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⏰HAPPENING SOON: Tune in at 12:10 CEST today to the live stream of the plenary session of the 2024 #SthlmForum on ‘Intersecting crises, joined-up solutions’ ➡️ bit.ly/44j9n3J

🎙️Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE now on Blue Sky, Mely Caballero-Anthony and Yero Baldeh & Juliana Uribe Villegas I Movilizatorio, with moderator

There is a growing trend to address non-traditional security challenges through multilateral #PeaceOperations . This report by Jaïr van der Lijn looks at how multilateral peace operations relate to non-traditional security challenges.

Full analysis ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/ZUSN4…