Arms Watch. SIPRI Report of the first Year of the UN Register of Conventional Arms. SIPRI Research Report No. 6.

Laurance, Edward J., Siemon T. Wezeman und Herbert Wulf:

ISBN 10: 0198291779 / ISBN 13: 9780198291770

Published by Oxford Univ. Press, 1993

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IX; 143 S., Tab., graph. Darst. Sehr gutes Ex. - 1. Executive summary - 2. Introduction - I. The rationale for this book II. Previous efforts to register the arms trade - III. The Persian Gulf War and arms trade control - IV. The United Nations Register of Conventional Arms V. The continuing problems of defining and measuring - arms transfers VI. SIPRI and the UN Register - 3. The first year of reporting - I. Government submissions II. Verification by cross-checking: a unique feature - of the UN Register Table 3.1. Government submissions to the UN Register for - 1992 Table 3.2. The leading exporters of major conventional weapons - in 1992 Table 3.3. The leading importers of major conventional weapons - in 1992 Table 3.4. Items recorded in the UN Register for 1992, by - type Table 3.5. Total number of weapons imported in 1992, by region - of recipient country Table 3.6. The leading exporters of major weapon systems in - 1992 Table 3.7. The leading importers of major weapon systems in - 1992 Table 3.8. Results of cross-checking exporter and importer - returns for 1992 Table 3.9. Level of verification, by weapon type - Figure 3.1. Constructed arms imports return for Saudi Arabia, 1992: based on supplier countries' export returns Figure 3.2. Arms transfers recorded in the UN Register for 1992 Figure 3.3. Verified arms transfers, by weapon type - 4. A comparison of SIPRI data with the UN Register of Conventional Arms - I. Introduction II. Structural differences in the registers - III. Comparing the SIPRI and UN registers - IV. Evaluating the UN Register - Figure 4.1. Percentage of items reported by SIPRI for 1992 which - fit the UN Register definitions Figure 4.2. Comparison of SIPRI and UN data - 5. Conclusions - I. Results of the first year of reporting II. Expansion of the UN Register - Annexes - Annexe 1. Returns to the UN Register of Conventional Arms for arms transfers in 1992 compared with SIPRI data - Annexe 2. The SIPRI register of trade in and licensed production of major conventional weapons, 1992 - Annexe 3. Documentation - Report of the UN Secretary-General on the Register of Conventional Arms, UN General Assembly document A/47/342, 14 August 1992 - 'The UN Register of Conventional Arms: a new instrument for cooperative security', Arms Control Today, April 1993 (excerpt) Hendrik Wagenmakers - 'The UN Register of Conventional Arms: Rationales and Prospects for Compliance and Effectiveness', The Washington Quarterly, spring 1993 (excerpt) Edward J. Laurance - 'The United Nations Register of Conventional Arms', SIPRI Yearbook 1993 (excerpt) Herbert Wulf - 'Implementing and Developing the United Nations Register of Arms', Peace Research Report no. 32, May 199 (excerpt) Malcolm Chalmers and Owen Greene - 'Transparency in armaments: information and international security in the post-cold war world', paper presented at the IISS Conference on Proliferation, Barnett Hill, UK, 5-7 May 1993 (excerpt) Ian Anthony. ISBN 0198291779 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Arms Watch. SIPRI Report of the first Year of the UN Register of Conventional Arms. SIPRI Research Report No. 6.
• Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 0198291779
• ISBN 13: 9780198291770
• Binding: Broschiert.
• Condition: Sehr gut
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Synopsis

This report documents the government submissions to the United Nations on the transfer of arms in seven weapons categories in 1992 and compares this data with information published by SIPRI in its arms trade register. It assesses the results of the United Nations register and the prospects for improving it in 1994. It is a unique source of information that will be of special interest to political scientists and policymakers interested in arms control.

About the Author

Edward J. Laurance is at Monterey Institute of International Studies.