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SIPRI YEARBOOK 2003
ARMAMENTS, DISARMAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
ISBN 0-19-926570-4
847 pages
£70.00
Published by Oxford University Press
Available from August 2003

The 34th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2002 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

  • the Euro-Atlantic system and global security
  • the African Union
  • major armed conflicts and multilateral peace missions
  • the International Criminal Court
  • Afghanistan and the new dynamics of intervention
  • the nuclear stand-off between India and Pakistan
  • the military and security dimensions of the European Union
  • security sector reform and NATO and EU enlargement
  • the processes of budgeting for the military sector in Africa
  • the military sector in a changing context
  • world military expenditure and arms production
  • unmanned air vehicles and land-attack cruise missiles
  • international arms transfers, and the financing factor in arms sales
  • arms control in the new security environment
  • nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and ballistic missile defence
  • world nuclear forces and operational military satellites
  • chemical and biological weapons developments and arms control
  • conventional arms control in Europe
  • landmines and destruction efforts
  • supply-side measures
  • the International Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation

Essays

  • Terrorism and the law: past and present international approaches
  • The non-military threat spectrum
  • The development and use of space-based systems
  • Is deterrence dead?
  • Weapons of mass disruption?


CONTENTS
Introduction: Trends and challenges in international security
1. The Euro-Atlantic system and global security
2. Major armed conflicts
3. Multilateral peace missions
4. Afghanistan and the new dynamics of intervention: counter-terrorism and nation building
5. The nuclear confrontation in South Asia
6. The military and security dimensions of the European Union
7. Security sector reform and NATO and EU enlargement
8. The processes of budgeting for the military sector in Africa
9. The military sector in a changing context
10. Military expenditure
11. Arms production
12. New developments in unmanned air vehicles and land-attack cruise missiles
13. International arms transfers
14. Arms control in the new security environment
15. Nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and ballistic missile defence
16. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control
17. Conventional arms control in Europe
18. Supply-side measures

Annex A. Arms control and disarmament agreements

Annex B. Chronology 2002

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30-April-2003