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Mark Bromley

Mark Bromley

Global
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
Latin America
Europe
Senior Researcher | Dual-Use and Arms Trade Control Programme, SIPRI
Contact
Email:
bromley@sipri.org 
www.sipri.org/about/bios/bromley

Mark Bromley is a Senior Researcher with the Dual-Use and Arms Trade Control Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and a Visiting Academic with the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland. He was previously employed as a Senior Researcher in the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. Before joining SIPRI in 2003 he was a policy analyst for the British American Security Information Council (BASIC). Mark's work at SIPRI currently focuses on international arms transfers, governmental transparency in the field of arms exports, and the workings of national, regional and international strategic trade control regimes and instruments.

He holds a PHD in International Relations from Stockholm University, an MA in War Studies from King’s College London, and a BA in Social and Political Sciences from St John’s College, Cambridge.

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Featured Publications

How to maintain multilateral cooperation on export controls in an era of geopolitical competition

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute | June 16, 2026.
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Good Practice Guide on Applying Export Controls to Transfers of Commercial Cyber Intrusion Capabilities

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute | March 27, 2026.
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Export Controls and Spyware: Enhancing Oversight, Transparency and Restraint

SIPRI | September 23, 2025.
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Publications

  • How to maintain multilateral cooperation on export controls in an era of geopolitical competition
    Stockholm International Peace Research Institute | June 16, 2026.
  • Good Practice Guide on Applying Export Controls to Transfers of Commercial Cyber Intrusion Capabilities
    Stockholm International Peace Research Institute | March 27, 2026.
  • Export Controls and Spyware: Enhancing Oversight, Transparency and Restraint
    SIPRI | September 23, 2025.
  • ATT Monitor 2025 Annual Report
    Control Arms | July 8, 2025.
  • Making the most of the EU catch-all control on cyber-surveillance exports
    SIPRI | October 18, 2024.
  • A new political forum could help make the EU’s strategic trade controls more strategic—if it is allowed to
    SIPRI Commentary | April 10, 2024.
  • Export controls and cyber-surveillance tools: Five suggestions for the Summit for Democracy
    SIPRI | March 8, 2024.
  • The EU Dual-use Regulation, cyber-surveillance and human rights: the competing norms and organised hypocrisy of EU export controls
    Defence Studies | Volume 23, No. 4
  • The Missile Technology Control Regime at a Crossroads: Adapting the Regime for Current and Future Challenges
    SIPRI Policy Paper | December 2022
  • Post-shipment On-site Inspections: Multilateral Steps for Debating and Enabling Their Adoption and Use
    SIPRI | 2022
  • Good Practice Guide on Post-shipment On-site Inspections of Military Materiel
    SIPRI | 2022
  • Understanding European Arms Export Controls: Material Interests and Competing Norms
    PHD Thesis | 2022
  • SALW-related assistance to states in sub-Saharan Africa: Hitting the target or missing the mark?
    SIPRI | January 21, 2022.
  • Post-shipment On-site Inspections of Military Materiel: Challenges and Responses
    SIPRI | 2021
  • Implementing the 2021 Recast of the EU Dual-use Regulation: Challenges and Opportunities
    SIPRI | September 2021
  • Reporting on Conventional Arms Transfers and Transfer Controls: Improving Coordination and Increasing Engagement
    SIPRI | August 2020
  • Using official development assistance to strengthen small arms and light weapons controls: Opportunities and risks
    SIPRI | June 18, 2020.
  • A search for common ground: export controls on surveillance technology and the role of the EU
    about:intel | February 12, 2020.
  • Detecting, investigating and prosecuting export control violations: European perspectives on key challenges and good practices
    SIPRI | December 2019
  • Revising the EU Dual-use Regulation: Challenges and opportunities for the trilogue process
    SIPRI | 2019
  • Measuring illicit arms and financial flows: Improving the assessment of Sustainable Development Goal 16
    SIPRI | July 2019
  • Arms transfer and SALW control in Middle East and North Africa: Mapping capacity-building effort
    SIPRI | 2018
  • The state of the Arms Trade Treaty: Advancing efforts on international assistance and illicit diversion
    SIPRI | 2018
  • SDG16.4 and the collection of data on illicit arms flows: Progress made but challenges ahead
    SIPRI | 2018
  • Promoting effective implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty: Mapping outreach and assistance in East and South East Asia
    SIPRI | 2018
  • The Conflict in Yemen and EU's arms export controls: Highlighting the flaws in the current regime
    SIPRI | 2018
  • Export controls, human security and cyber-surveillance technology: Examining the proposed changes to the EU Dual-use Regulation
    SIPRI | 2017
  • Challenges and good practices in the implementation of the EU’s arms and dual-use export controls: A cross-sector analysis
    SIPRI Concept Note | July 2017
  • ATT- related activities in Latin America and the Caribbean: identifying gaps and improving coordination
    SIPRI | 2017
  • Brexit and export controls: Entering uncharted waters
    SIPRI Topical backgrounder | July 2016
  • The UN’s small arms and light weapons control agenda takes a (very) small step forward
    SIPRI Blog | June 2016
  • ICT Surveillance Systems: Trade Policy and the Application of Human Security Concerns
    Strategic Trade Review | 2016