Publications
Explore CAAT’s library of publications to learn more about and take action against the arms trade. These include reports, the CAAT News magazine, parliamentary submissions and more. You can browse all publications below, or filter by type, topic, year, and/or countries and companies covered in the contents.
![Report cover. CAAT logo. DEDucation logo. Title: Weapoinising Universities: Research Collaborations between UK Universities and the Military Industrial Complex. Photo of a laboratory, with a woman in a white coat sitting at a desk with research equipment on and above, and a man in military fatigues at another desk engaged in an experiment](https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2024/02/CAAT-Unis-report-cover.jpg)
Weaponising Universities: Research Collaborations between UK Universities and the Military Industrial Complex
This report discusses the deepening ties between universities in the UK and the arms industry and military research, which include arms industry-funded research on campus, dedicated research centres sponsored by the arms industry and/or the MOD and other parts of the UK security establishment, and other ties.
![Report cover. CAAR logo in top left. Title: "UK arms exports in 2022 - a research briefing"](https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/AR-2022-cover.jpg)
Annual Report: UK Arms Exports in 2022
An analysis of information, policy developments, and cases of concern relating to UK arms exports in 2022
![Report cover. Title "UK arms exports in 2021 - a research briefing". CAAT Logo in top left corner.](https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/01/UK-arms-exports-2021-cover.jpg)
UK arms exports in 2021
A report on UK arms exports in 2021, analysing all the publicly available sources of data.
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A Very British Problem: the Evolution of Britain’s Militarised Policing Industrial Complex
Despite widespread myths that the British police are unarmed and govern through consent, paramilitary-style policing has a long and ugly history in the UK and across the British Empire. This report looks at the increasingly blurry line between the police and military and the role of the UK in militarised policing globally.
![Report cover, title "Open? The UK's secret arms sales". CAAT logo at the bottom](https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/07/Open-licences-cover.jpg)
Open? The UK’s secret arms sales
The UK's secretive open licence system obscures the true level of the UK arms trade, and eases arms sales to repressive regimes and countries in conflict.
![Report cover "Business as usual: how major weapons exporters arm the world's conflicts"](https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/03/Business-as-usual-cover.jpg)
Business as Usual: how major weapons exporters arm the world’s conflicts
This report examines the arms export practices of the top 11 arms exporters worldwide in relation to countries involved in conflict. It finds that there is no evidence of conflict acting as an impediment to arms sales by any of the eleven countries.
![Report cover, CAAT logo in top right, title "Fighting the Wrong Battles" subtitle "How obsession with military power diverts resources from the climate crisis", Author "Sam Perlo-Freeman", date "February 2020"](https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2020/03/fighting-the-wrong-battles-feb2020-488x345-1.jpg)
Fighting the Wrong Battles
A move from militarism and the arms trade towards tackling climate change would create more jobs and increase human security
![report cover for CAAT Report "Special Treatment: UK Government Support for the Arms Industry and Trade" by Same Perlo Freeman of Sipri November 2018](https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2020/03/resource-test2.jpg)
Special Treatment: UK government support for the arms industry and trade
Report on subsidies and support for the UK arms industry and trade
![Report cover "A shameful relationship: UK complicity in Saudi state violence. Image: 2 fighter aircraft in flight. Author: David Wearing. Date; April 2016](https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2020/07/a-shameful-relationship.jpg)
A shameful relationship: UK complicity in Saudi state violence
Saudi Arabia is the UK's largest arms customer. Saudi Arabia is one of the world's most repressive regimes and is using UK arms in its bombing of Yemen. The importance to the UK government of arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and of the overall alliance with Saudi Arabia, mutes any criticism of the regime’s behaviour.
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Arms Industry in the Clyde & Renewable Energy Options
The UK and Scottish governments should act urgently to get wave technology moving forward through the £200 million investment needed, and to target this at the Clyde region. This is half the cost of one of the Type 26 Frigates being built on the Clyde, and would create far more potential for jobs and exports.
![Report cover for Arming Apartheid from CAAT, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and and War on Want: shows an image of a giant explosion in Palestine](https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2020/03/resource-test5.jpg)
Arming Apartheid
The UK and Israel have a deep, 2-way arms trading relationship, which contributes to Israel's repression of the Palestinian people and its maintenance of an Apartheid system in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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Armed Extraction: The UK Military in Nigeria
This report looks at the role of the UK government in fuelling human rights abuses and conflict in Nigeria and its relationship to access to fossil fuel resources.