Background Information

by Malcolm Chalmers, Owen Greene

In addition to the standardized form asking for information on imports and exports, the UN Register asks for "background information" on military holdings and procurement through national production. This data is not published by the UN. This volume analyzes this data for 1993 - the first year of the UN Register - and discusses its implications for the future usefulness of the Register.

70 pages, Paperback

Published April 26, 1995

About the author

Malcolm Chalmers is Deputy Director-General of RUSI. He is a Special Adviser to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, and was a member of the UK Cabinet Office consultative group for the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review, and of the UK Defence Secretary's Advisory Forum for the 2010 Defence Green Paper. He was Visiting Professor of Defence and Foreign Policy in the Department of War Studies, Kings College, London, and was an FCO Special Adviser to Foreign Secretaries Jack Straw MP and Margaret Beckett MP.