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Samuel Perlo- Freeman
Samuel Perlo-Freeman
Research Coordinator, Campaign Against Arms Trade, UK (website)
Fellow, World Peace Foundation (website)
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email: sam [at] caat [dot] org [dot] uk;  smhwpf [at] gmail [dot] com
phone: +44 7732 908126

corruption | defense industry | global arms trade data/trends
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Samuel Perlo-Freeman is Research Coordinator at Campaign Against Arms Trade in London, UK, focusing in particular on UK military spending and procurement, and the role of arms industries in fueling conflict. He is also a Fellow of the World Peace Foundation, where he was previously Programme Manager of their project on Global Arms Business and Corruption, from 2016-2019; and a Senior Associate Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). From 2007 to 2016, Perlo-Freeman worked at SIPRI on issues regarding military expenditure, arms industry and arms trade, and, in particular, was head of the SIPRI Military Expenditure Project. In this capacity, he completed a project to extend SIPRI's unique military expenditure database backwards in time from 1988 to the 1950s.

Perlo-Freeman has been a regular contributor to the SIPRI Yearbook and presents on issues of arms and military expenditure at conferences and workshops worldwide. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of the West of England. In this role, he worked mostly in the field of defense and peace economics. He holds PhDs in Mathematics and Economics, and is the author of numerous publications on defense and peace economics, development economics, arms industry and trade, as well as mathematics.


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Recent Publications:
  • "Corruption in the arms trade," chapter 7. in A. Tan (ed.) Research handbook on the arms trade, Edward Elgar, 2020.
  • "The ATT and War Profiteering: the Case of the UK," Global Responsibility to Protect, Vol. 12 no. 2, 2020.
  • "How unconstrained military spending harms international security," section 1 in "Rethinking unconstrained military spending," UN Office of Disarmament Affairs Occasional Paper no. 35, April 2020.
  • "Red flags for arms trade corruption," Economics of Peace and Security Journal, Vol. 15, no. 1, 2020.
  • "Fighting the wrong battles: How obsession with military power diverts resources from the climate crisis," Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), February 2020.
  • ​"Red Flags and Red Diamonds: The Warning Signs and Political Drivers of Arms Trade Corruption," World Peace Foundation, September 19, 2019.
  • “Arms, corruption, and the state: understanding the role of arms trade corruption in political finance”, Economics of Peace and Security Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, Oct 2018.
  • Compendium of Arms Trade Corruption, relaunched, World Peace Foundation, Nov 2018.
  • "Arms Trade Corruption and Political Finance," World Peace Foundation / The Fletcher School, July 9, 2018. ​
  • "Who is arming the Yemen war? (And is anyone planning to stop?)," World Peace Foundation, Feb 28.
  • ​"Sweden’s proposed “Democracy Criterion” for arms exports – taking the lead in export controls, or new words for old policies," blog post, December 12, 2017.
  • "Corruption in the Indonesian arms business: tentative steps towards an end to impunity," World Peace Foundation, December 2017.​​​
  • "Just how big is the international arms trade? (part one) and (part two)," World Peace Foundation, Sept 25, 2017.​
  • "Introduction" and "SIPRI’s New Long Data-set on Military Expenditure: The Successes and Methodological Pitfalls," in "Defence and Peace Economics, vol. 28 no. 4," July 4, 2017.​
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