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SIPRI Yearbook 2009
Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
‘Drawn from more than a dozen countries, the 32 contributors to SIPRI Yearbook 2009 represent some of the world’s leading experts in their respective fields’
From the Introduction by SIPRI Director Dr Bates Gill
SIPRI Yearbook 2009 is a compendium of data and analysis in the areas of
- Security and conflicts
- Military spending and armaments
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Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament
These pages contains summaries and samples of the Yearbook's contents, ordering information, details of translations into Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian, and summaries in a number of other languages. Read the chapter summaries by following the links below, navigating through contents on the left or downloading the Yearbook summary booklet.
About SIPRI Yearbook 2009
The 40th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook includes coverage of developments during 2008 in- major armed conflicts
- multilateral peace operations
- military expenditure
- arms production
- international arms transfers
- world nuclear forces and fissile material stocks
- nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
- reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials
- conventional arms control
- controls on security-related international transfers
- multilateral arms embargoes
as well as special studies on
- mass displacement caused by conflicts and one-sided violence
- one-sided violence against civilians
- the legitimacy of peace operations
- security and politics in Afghanistan
- US and Iraqi military spending
- arms transfers to Sri Lanka
- the adoption of the Cluster Munitions Convention
- defence trade cooperation agreements
SIPRI Yearbook 2009 also has extensive annexes on arms control and disarmament agreements and international security cooperation bodies, and a chronology of events during 2008 in the area of security and arms control.
Summaries
Summaries of the Yearbook are available in
- Catalan, in partnership with Fundació per la Pau
- Dutch, in partnership with the Flemish Peace Institute
- English
- Farsi
- French, in partnership with the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques
- German, in partnership with the Institut für Friedenspädagogik Tübingen e.V.
- Polish
- Spanish, in partnership with Centro de Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Swedish
Press launch
- Welcome
SIPRI Director, Dr Bates Gill -
Challenges to peace and peacebuilding
Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, SIPRI Board Member - Conflicts and one-sided violence against civilians
Dr Ekaterina Stepanova, SIPRI Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme - Nuclear weapons negotiations: new opportunities in old challenges
Dr Ian Anthony, SIPRI Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme - Release of global military expenditure data for 2008
Dr Sam Perlo-Freeman, SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme - Current challenges to the non-proliferation regime
Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala, SIPRI Board Member
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SIPRI Yearbook 2009
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SIPRI Yearbook
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- Order the yearbook
- Summary booklets
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Download summary booklets (PDF):
- Resumen en Català
- Kurzfassung auf Deutsch
- Summary in English
- Resumen en español
- Résumé en français
- Samenvatting in het Nederlands
- Sammanfattning på svenska
Order printed copies of the summary booklet:
Price: €2.50 per copy plus €5 per order shipping and handling
