SIPRI YEARBOOK 2004

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ARMAMENTS, DISARMAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
ISBN 0-19-927420-7. c. 880 pages £80.00
Published by Oxford University Press. Available from September 2004

The 35th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2003 in
• Security and conflicts
• Military spending and armaments
• Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament
with extensive annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of security- and arms control-related events.

Studies in this volume
• Euro-Atlantic organizations and relationships
• the Iraq war
• major armed conflicts and multilateral peace missions
• developments in international courts
• China’s new security multilateralism
• national defence reform and the African Union
• security sector reform in the Western Balkans
• science- and technology-based military innovation
• world military expenditure and arms production
• international arms transfers, and the suppliers of ballistic missile technology
• potential indicators of offensive biological weapon activities
• major trends in arms control and non-proliferation
• nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
• world nuclear forces and ballistic missile defence
• chemical and biological warefare developments and arms control
• the SARS epidemic
• conventional arms control
• transfer controls and destruction programmes
• withdrawal from arms control treaties

CONTENTS

Introduction. Iraq: the legacy
1. Euro-Atlantic institutions and relationships
2. The Iraq war: the enduring controversies and challenges
3. Major armed conflicts
4. Multilateral peace missions
5. Post-conflict justice: developments in international courts
6. China’s new security multilateralism and its implications for the Asia-Pacific region
7. National defence reform and the African Union
8. Security sector reform in the Western Balkans
9. Science- and technology-based military innovation: the United states and Europe
10. Military expenditure
11. Arms production
12. International arms transfers
13. Biological weapons and potential indicators of offensive biological weapon activities
14. Major trends in arms control and non-proliferation
15. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
16. Chemical and biological warefare developments and arms control
17. Conventional arms control
18. Transfer controls and destruction programmes
19. Withdrawal from arms control treaties
Annex A. Arms control and disarmament agreements