Network Analysis: Arms Trade (Community Detection)

This project applies network analysis methods to global arms trade data to identify communities of countries using graph-based community detection algorithms.

Authors: Polina Mishulina, Alexa Rui

Affiliation: LMU Munich

Methods

• Network construction from SIPRI Arms Transfer Database
• Community detection (Louvain / Walktrap / Multilayer Leiden analysis)
• Visualisation of trade network structure

Stack

Python · NetworkX · pandas · matplotlib