This is an ongoing project engaged in creating a federated system of individual databases at different geographical locations, accessible through a single integrated Internet user platform. The objective is to offer professionals in the field and in related sciences, such as researchers, politicians and the media, an organized authoritative and structured factual reference system. The purpose of this project is to monitor, describe and analyse trends and developments in military expenditures world-wide. Arms procurement decision making The project examines the ways in which national arms procurement processes, even though they involve sensitive security issues and complex weapon systems, can become more responsive to the broader objectives of security and public accountability. The project conducts research on and analyses the region's security dynamic based on a broad definition of security.
Research is conducted on multilateral conflict prevention, management and resolution.
While a particular focus is placed on UN and other international peacekeeping operations, the project also covers preventive diplomacy, peace making, peace building and peace enforcement. This project proceeds from the assumption that developments in Russia and its interaction with the external world will be among the most important factors affecting the emerging post-cold war international system. The project seeks to define the range of security choices available to Russia, assessing the probability of their practical implementation and speculating on their domestic and international implications. New Participants in the European Security Debate Initated in 1995, this project is focused on Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, based on the fact that the independence of these countries and their return to the European region from mid-1991 opened up a Baltic dimension in the context of European security. The project considers the questions of who these newcomers to the European security debate are, how they cope with their post-Soviet heritage and how they manage to participate in the new European environment.