Arms Watch. SIPRI Report of the first Year of the UN Register of Conventional Arms.

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

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