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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Who were the top 5 military spenders in 2023?

1 United States 🇺🇸
2 China 🇨🇳
3 Russia 🇷🇺
4 India 🇮🇳
5 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

Together, they accounted for 61% of world military spending.

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This SIPRI Policy Brief for #MistraGeopolitics offers insights into how building and diversifying #livelihoods can contribute to #peacebuilding in climate- and conflict-affected contexts.

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‘For the actors involved in the implementation of #MTCR controls, applying controls to intangible transfers of technology and software effectively is a widely recognized challenge’—Lauriane Heau & Kolja Brockmann provide recommendations for the MTCR to strengthen its efforts to

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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SIPRI’s Lorenzo Scarazzato comments on SIPRI’s new  #MilitarySpending  data in this article by Frankfurter Allgemeine.

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Military aid to Ukraine🇺🇦 narrows spending gap with Russia🇷🇺. Combined, military aid to Ukraine and Ukraine’s own military spending were equivalent to about 91% of Russian spending.

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USA🇺🇸 remains NATO’s major spender but European members increase share.

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SIPRI’s new  #MilitarySpending  data quoted in this article by Nikkei Asia.

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New external article by SIPRI’s Larisa Saveleva Dovgal on the impact of #UAVs and #hypersonic #missiles on strategies of escalation.

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

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SIPRI’s new  #MilitarySpending  data quoted in this article by POLITICO.

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Who were the top 10 military spenders in 2023?

1. United States 🇺🇸
2. China 🇨🇳
3. Russia 🇷🇺
4. India 🇮🇳
5. Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
6. United Kingdom 🇬🇧
7. Germany 🇩🇪
8. Ukraine 🇺🇦
9. France 🇫🇷
10. Japan 🇯🇵

Together, they accounted for 74% of world military spending.

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SIPRI–The Japan Institute of International Affairs: JIIA workshop in Tokyo explores Indo-Pacific naval build-up.

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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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HAPPENING NOW: SIPRI's Diego Lopes da Silva will join a webinar by United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research to discuss key regional and national #MilitaryExpenditure trends in light of the rapidly deteriorating security environment.

🗓️ 25 April 2024, 15:00-16:00 CEST, online

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In this external blog, SIPRI’s Alexander Blanchard argues that although ethics has long been discussed in regulating #AutonomousWeapons , its potential to drive this debate forward remains largely untapped.

Read the full ICRC blog post here ⬇️

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