An evaluation of the second year of reporting to the united nations register of conventional arms

Abstract

Dr. Edward J. Laurance is Professor of International Policy Studies and Associate Director of the Program for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). He is the author of The International Arms Trade (1992), and Arms Watch: SIPRI Report on the First Year of the UN Register of Conventional Arms (1993), written with Herbert Wulf and Siemon Wezeman, and co-editor of Developing the UN Register of Conventional Arms (1994). Christina K. Woodward was a research associate for the Conventional Arms Proliferation Project of the Program for Nonproliferation Studies at MIIS. She is currently a research assistant at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Much of the analysis contained in this report is taken from the joint efforts of Dr. Laurance and Dr. Herbert Wulf in their capacity as consultants to the United Nations for the establishment and development of the Register of Conventional Arms.