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  • SIPRI Yearbook 2009
    • Introduction. International security, armaments and disarmament in 2008
    • 1. Mass displacement caused by conflicts and one-sided violence: national and international responses
    • 2. Trends in armed conflicts: one-sided violence against civilians
    • 3. The legitimacy of peace operations
    • 4. Security and politics in Afghanistan: progress, problems and prospects
    • 5. Military expenditure
    • 6. Arms production
    • 7. International arms transfers
    • 8. World nuclear forces
    • 9. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
    • 10. Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials
    • 11. Conventional arms control
    • 12. Controls on security-related international transfers
    • Annexes
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  • SIPRI Yearbook 2008
    • Introduction. A call to arms control
    • 1. Euro-Atlantic security institutions and relationships
    • 2. Trends in armed conflicts
    • 3. Planning and deploying peace operations
    • 4. Integrating gender in post-conflict security sector reform
    • 5. Military expenditure
    • 6. Arms production
    • 7. International arms transfers
    • 8. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
    • 9. Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials
    • 10. Conventional arms control
    • 11. Controls on security-related international transfers
    • Annexes
    • Errata
  • SIPRI Yearbook 2007
    • Introduction. A world of risk
    • 1. Euro-Atlantic security and institutions
    • 2. Major armed conflicts
    • 3. Peacekeeping: keeping pace with changes in conflict
    • 4. Regional security cooperation in the former Soviet area
    • 5. Democratic accountability of intelligence services
    • 6. Energy and security: regional and global dimensions
    • 7. Analysing risks to human lives
    • 8. Military expenditure
    • 9. Arms production
    • 10. International arms transfers
    • 11. Reducing risks by controlling possession and use of civil materials
    • 12. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
    • 13. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control
    • 14. Conventional arms control
    • 15. Controls on security-related international transfers
    • Annexes
    • Errata
  • SIPRI Yearbook 2006
    • Introduction. The world of security and peace research in a 40-year perspective
    • 1. Euro-Atlantic security and institutions
    • 2. Major armed conflicts
    • 3. Peace-building: the new international focus on Africa
    • 4. Regional security cooperation in the early 21st century
    • 5. National governance of nuclear weapons: opportunities and constraints
    • 6. Transparency in the arms life cycle
    • 7. Military expenditure data: a 40-year overview
    • 8. Military expenditure
    • 9. Arms production
    • 10. International arms transfers
    • 11. The security dimension of European collective efforts in space
    • 12. Reflections on continuity and change in arms control
    • 13. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
    • 14. Chemical and biological warfare developments and arms control
    • 15. Conventional arms control
    • 16. Transfer controls
    • Annexes
    • Errata
  • SIPRI Yearbook 2005
    • Introduction. Global security governance: a world of change and challenge
    • 1. Euro-Atlantic security and institutions
    • 2. Major armed conflicts
    • 3. Multilateral peace missions: challenges of peace-building
    • 4. Governing the use of force under international auspices: deficits in parliamentary accountability
    • 5. The greater Middle East
    • 6. Latin America and the Caribbean: security and defence in the post-cold war era
    • 7. Financing security in a global context
    • 8. Military expenditure
    • 9. Arms production
    • 10. International arms transfers
    • 11. Arms control and the non-proliferation process
    • 12. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
    • 13. Chemical and biological warfare developments and arms control
    • 14. Libya’s renunciation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and ballistic missiles
    • 15. Conventional arms control
    • 16. International non-proliferation and disarmament assistance
    • 17. Transfer controls
    • 18. The Proliferation Security Initiative: international law aspects of the Statement of Interdiction Principles
    • Annexes
  • SIPRI Yearbook 2004
    • 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 warfare developments and arms control
    • 17. Conventional arms control
    • 18. Transfer controls and destruction programmes
    • 19. Withdrawal from arms control treaties
    • Annexes
  • SIPRI Yearbook 2003
    • 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 enlargements
    • 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
    • Annexes
    • Essay 1. Terrorism and the law: past and present international approaches
    • Essay 2. The non-military threat spectrum
    • Essay 3. The paradox of space weapons
    • Essay 4. Is deterrence dead?
    • Essay 5. Weapons of mass disruption
  • SIPRI Yearbook 2002
    • Introduction. Global security after 11 September 2001
    • 1. Major armed conflicts
    • 2. Conflict prevention
    • 3. The military dimension of the European Union
    • 4. The challenges of security sector reform
    • 5. Sanctions applied by the European Union and the United Nations
    • 6. Military expenditure
    • 7. Arms production
    • 8. International arms transfers
    • 9. Arms control after the attacks of 11 September 2001
    • 10. Ballistic missile defence and nuclear arms control
    • 11. The military uses of outer space
    • 12. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control
    • 13. Conventional arms control
    • 14. Multilateral export controls
    • Annexes
  • SIPRI Yearbook 2001
    • Introduction. The organizing principles of global security
    • 1. Major armed conflicts
    • 2. Armed conflict prevention, management and resolution
    • 3. Europe: an emerging power
    • 4. Military expenditure and arms production
    • 5. Transfers of major conventional weapons
    • 6. Nuclear arms control and ballistic missile defence
    • 7. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control
    • 8. Conventional arms control
    • 9. Multilateral weapon and technology export controls
    • Annexes
  • SIPRI Yearbook 2000
    • Introduction. In search of a global security system for the 21st century
    • 1. Major armed conflicts
    • 2. Armed conflict prevention, management and resolution
    • 3. Russia: separatism and conflicts in the North Caucasus
    • 4. Europe: the new transatlantic agenda
    • 5. Military expenditure
    • 6. Arms production
    • 7. Transfers of major conventional weapons
    • 8. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
    • 9. Chemical and biological weapon developments and control
    • 10. Conventional arms control
    • 11. Responses to proliferation: the North Korean ballistic missile programme
    • Annexes
  • SIPRI Yearbook 1999
    • Introduction. Rethinking the contemporary security system
    • 1. Major armed conflicts
    • 2. Armed conflict prevention, management and resolution
    • 3. The Middle East
    • 4. Russia: military reform
    • 5. The Caspian Sea Basin: the security dimensions
    • 6. Europe: the institutionalized security process
    • 7. Military expenditure
    • 8. Military research and development
    • 9. Nuclear tests by India and Pakistan
    • 10. Arms production
    • 11. Transfers of major conventional weapons
    • 12. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
    • 13. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control
    • 14. Conventional arms control
    • 15. Non-cooperative responses to proliferation: multilateral dimensions
    • Annexes
  • SIPRI Yearbook 1998
    • Introduction. Transformation of the world security system
    • 1. Major armed conflicts
    • 2. Armed conflict prevention, management and resolution
    • 3. The Middle East peace process
    • 4. Russia: conflicts and peaceful settlement of disputes
    • 5. Europe: the transition to inclusive security
    • 6. Military expenditure and arms production
    • 7. Military research and development
    • 8. Transfers of major conventional weapons
    • 9. Multilateral security-related export controls
    • 10. Nuclear arms control
    • 11. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control
    • 12. Conventional arms control
    • 13. The ban on anti-personnel mines
    • Annexes
  • SIPRI Yearbook 1997
    • Introduction. The emerging international security agenda
    • 1. Major armed conflicts
    • 2. Armed conflict prevention, management and resolution
    • 3. The Middle East peace process
    • 4. Russia: conflicts and its security environment
    • 5. Europe: in search of cooperative security
    • 6. Military expenditure
    • 7. Military research and development
    • 8. Arms production
    • 9. The trade in major conventional weapons
    • 10. Multilateral military-related export control measures
    • 11. Nuclear arms control
    • 12. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
    • 13. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control
    • 14. Conventional arms control
    • Annexes
  • SIPRI Yearbook 1996
    • Introduction. Towards a pluralistic security system
    • 1. Major armed conflicts
    • 2. Armed conflict prevention, management and resolution
    • 3. The divided nations of China and Korea: discord and dialogue
    • 4. The Middle East peace process
    • 5. The former Yugoslavia: the war and the peace process
    • 6. Conflicts in and around Russia
    • 7. Europe: towards new security arrangements
    • 8. Military expenditure
    • 9. Military research and development
    • 10. Arms production
    • 11. The trade in major conventional weapons
    • 12. Multilateral military-related export control measures
    • 13. The nuclear non-proliferation regime after the NPT Review and Extension Conference
    • 14. Nuclear arms control
    • 15. Chemical and biological weapon developments and arms control
    • 16. Conventional arms control and security cooperation in Europe
    • 17. Land-mines and blinding laser weapons: the Inhumane Weapons Convention Review Conference
    • Annexes
  • SIPRI Yearbook 1995
    • Introduction. The international system in transition
    • Introduction to Part I. Towards a new United Nations
    • 1. Major armed conflicts
    • 2. Armed conflict prevention, management and resolution
    • 3. South Africa: from apartheid to multi-party democracy
    • 4. Central America: a firm and lasting peace?
    • 5. The Middle East: continuation of the peace process
    • 6. The former Yugoslavia: lessons of war and diplomacy
    • 7. Russia and its neighbourhood: conflict developments and settlement efforts
    • 8. Europe: the multilateral security process
    • 9. Inventories of fissile materials and nuclear weapons
    • 10. Chemical and biological weapons: developments and destruction
    • 11. Military technology: the case of China
    • 12. World military expenditure
    • 13. Arms production
    • 14. The trade in major conventional weapons
    • 15. Multilateral weapon-related export control measures
    • 16. Nuclear arms control
    • 17. The ABM Treaty and theatre ballistic missile defence
    • 18. The comprehensive nuclear test ban
    • 19. Chemical and biological arms control
    • 20. Conventional arms control and security dialogue in Europe
    • 21. Inhumane conventional weapons: efforts to strengthen the constraints
    • Annexes
  • SIPRI Yearbook 1994
    • Introduction. The search for a new security system
    • 1. Multilateral conflict prevention, management and resolution
    • 2. Major armed conflicts
    • 3. The Middle East: the peace and security-building process
    • 4. South-East Asia and the new Asia-Pacific security dialogue
    • 5. North-East Asia and multilateral security institutions
    • 6. Conflict developments on the territory of the former Soviet Union
    • 7. Europe: towards a new regional security regime
    • 8. Nuclear weapon developments
    • 9. Chemical weapon developments
    • 10. Military technology: the case of India
    • 11. Non-lethal weapons: a case study of new technology developments
    • 12. World military expenditure
    • 13. Arms production and arms trade
    • 14. Conventional arms control and security co-operation in Europe
    • 15. Nuclear arms control and an extended non-proliferation regime
    • 16. Nuclear arms control
    • 17. The Chemical Weapons Convention: institutionalization and preparation for entry into force
    • 18. Biological weapon and arms control developments
    • 19. UNSCOM: activities in 1993
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    • The SIPRI 1993 Olof Palme Memorial Lecture: 'Co-operative security in Europe: what is required?'
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    • Civilians in the firing line: the ugly reality of modern conflict
    • A new lease on life for nuclear disarmament?
    • Military spending and arms sales keep rising—but for how long?
    • Legitimacy: peacekeeping's fatal flaw?
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  • Afghanistan
    • NATO's Bucharest summit: implications for Afghanistan
    • That assassination attempt...
    • Why the PRTs must be reviewed
    • Recommended websites, part I: informed comment...
    • Hekmatyar speaks...
    • Recommended websites, part II: The Taliban speak...
    • How are we doing in Afghanistan, part I: the dangers of statistics...
    • Taliban suggest an “independent investigation team on the killing of civilians” including Taliban and NATO soldiers working together...
    • Germany to send more soldiers to Afghanistan?
    • Thoughts on the Kabul suicide attack
    • SIPRI Afghan Blog in Afghanistan...
    • International Crisis Group paper on Taliban propaganda
    • Civilian deaths: Afghan parliament want to control ISAF operations and deployment
    • Visit to Meymaneh PRT...
    • The Taliban "address to the Canadian people" after killing female aid workers
    • Taliban attacks getting more effective
    • Airstrikes and civilian casualties in Afghanistan
    • Interview with a "new Afghan incarnation" of the Taliban.
    • The Canadian military commitment to finish in 2011
    • Taliban communication skills increase - Mullah Omar speaks with confidence and awareness...
    • How are we doing in Afghanistan, part II: New UK views - pessimism or realism...?
    • Recommended websites, part III: CSIS and "winning" the war in Afghanistan
    • Failure is an option: The problems with NATO…
    • Obama and Petraeus - the "Comprehensive Surge"??
    • Talking to the Taliban, slight return…
    • Hanif Atmar - at last some good news for Afghanistan...?
    • Karzai again offers talks with Taliban leader
    • A by-product of Obama’s inauguration speech?
    • De Hoop Scheffer – “Afghanistan, we can do better”
    • Let's be more pessimistic - how it can get worse in Afghanistan...
    • Prospects for the Afghan National Police
    • The ICG advise Barack Obama on what not to do...
    • Exit Strategy - but what does it actually mean? (I will fail to answer this question.)
    • Will the real 'Tipping Point' please stand up?
    • Talking to the Taliban
    • Mullah Omar in Afghanistan? Well, it’s the sort of place he might be…
    • Pull the troops out of Afghanistan now - a cunning plan with absolutely no drawbacks...
    • The Taliban talk politics…
    • Winning the information war...
    • US senior commander in Afghanistan sacked
    • The Taliban speak – the Germans listen...
    • Mujahideen of Herat: Tajik fighters join the Taliban?
    • Recommended report: Afghan opinion poll
    • Propaganda is the Taliban’s “Stinger”…
    • Where will Afghanistan be in 1, 5 and 10 years time?
    • Taliban expansion into Badghis province, North Western Afghanistan
    • Afghan elections delayed
    • Taliban “issue battle damage casualties list “ inflicted on NATO/ISAF
    • Recommended reading: Shaping Europe’s Afghan surge
    • New NATO troop offers to Afghanistan…
    • A snapshot of the Afghan National Army - 7 years on...
    • Pakistan to collapse?
    • What intelligence does the Taliban gain from Western media reporting??
    • Taliban ambush the US in the Korengal valley...
    • A PRT future option?
    • Air strikes in Afghanistan: unacceptable to say “unacceptable”…?
    • AfPak disconnect?
    • "It doesn't matter what really happened. It matters what they think happened."
    • Still trying to find an effective counter narcotics strategy in Afghanistan...
    • Pakistani military operations against the Pakistani Taliban – looking a little like 2001…?
    • Body Count - good, bad or ugly?
    • Recommendations: easy to make, hard to make happen…
    • Triage for AfPak...
    • UN attacks poor international community spending in Afghanistan
    • Apologies for my (continued) absence...
    • Blogging resumes...
    • Taliban attack Kabul: "It is our work, the targets are the palace, the finance, justice and mines ministries, and the central bank,"
    • A sniper rifle that shoots itself in the foot...?
    • Prospects for 2010
    • Davos Annual Meeting 2010 - Rebuilding Peace and Stability in Afghanistan
    • Never let a good rant go to waste
    • Ambassador Eide replies...
    • UK sees no sign Taliban leaders are ready to talk peace
    • Guest article: Feeding an army in Afghanistan
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    • India and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: to sign or not to sign?
    • Tim at Kabul airport
    • Afghan media ban: "...a flagrant violation of the recognized principle of freedom of speech..."
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