INTERVIEW Corentin Brustlein, head of the Centre for Security Studies at Ifri, discusses the Sipri report on the increase in global military spending in 2015...

Global military spending is set to rise again in 2015. They have increased after four years of decline, according to a report published Tuesday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri ).

These expenditures amounted to 1.676 billion dollars, an increase of 1% over one year. The United States, China and Saudi Arabia spent the most, with France representing the seventh budget. Researcher Corentin Brustlein , head of Ifri's Centre for Security Studies and the "Deterrence and Proliferation" programme, looks back at this report for 20 Minutes.. .

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