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Trends in international arms transfers, 2011 – Paul Holtom, Mark Bromley, Pieter D. Wezeman and Siemon T. Wezeman, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute “The SIPRI Arms Transfers Database now contains information on all international transfers of major conventional weapons from 1950 to the end of 2011. It is the only publicly available resource providing consistent …
Iran’s Global Cat-And-Mouse Game on Sanctions – On the docks of Singapore, in the registries of Malta, and in global shipping data, a tale of Irans efforts to dodge sanctions – by Rachel Armstrong, Stephen Grey and Mimanshu Ojha – Reuters, February 2012 “Washington and European capitals want to stop or slow Irans nuclear programme. …
Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 20112016 “Global mobile data traffic grew 2.3-fold in 2011, more than doubling for the fourth year in a row. The 2011 mobile data traffic growth rate was higher than anticipated. Last year’s forecast projected that the growth rate would be 131 percent. This year’s estimate …
News release: “The total arms sales (including sales of military services) of the SIPRI Top 100 maintained their upward trend in 2010, although at 1 per cent in real terms, the increase was much slower than in 2009. Over the period since 2002, the increase has been 60 per cent in real terms. Arms-producing and …
